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What radiation regimen do you use to palliate bulky melanoma metastases involving the oral cavity?
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Radiation Oncology · Karmanos Cancer Institute - McLaren Proton Therapy Center
I like this 9 Gy x 3 melanoma regimen by Dr. Jens Overgaard from Denmark:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4044346
It's an oldie from 1985, but uses roughly the same regimen (9.5 Gy x 3) subsequently found to be the trigger of an abscopal response in a patient progressing on ipilimumab, as reported...