Radiotherapy in the palliative treatment of patienrs with solitary metastases from skin melanoma to the viscera and bones

The paper presents the results of multimodality treatment comprising drug, radiation, and photodynamic therapies for solitary metastasis to the lung, bones, and liver in 10, 4, and 1 patients, respectively; these have rather convincingly shown that it is highly expedient to incorporate, if indicated, different methods of local radiation exposure into a palliative treatment regimen. Varying resorption of metastases in response to radiation exposure was noted in the majority of patients, moreover, the remission remained for a rather long time; and metastatic masses completely disappeared in individual patients. Radiotherapy is effective in the treatment algorithm for this group of patients and increases survival and quality of life.

solitary metastases from skin melanoma to the viscera and bones, radiotherapy, photodynamic therapy