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How would you treat locally advanced melanoma of the scalp with several in transit lesions and a metastatic lesion to the parotid if the patient is progressing on immunotherapy such as pembrolizumab?
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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
I think it is important to first define whether this is truly primary progression or whether the patient may have a delayed response. The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) has some consensus guidelines for defining this:
It is important to recognize that these ar...