ki.se Methods All patients with ≥5.5 mm thick choroidal melanomas who were treated with plaque brachytherapy at a single institution between 1 November 1979 and 31 December 2015 were included (n=571).

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Choroidal melanoma is the most common primary intraocular malignant tumor in adults and results in metastatic death in up ...

Despite the highly successful treatment outcomes for achieving local tumor control, long-term survival rates for uveal melanoma and large choroidal melanomas in particular remain dismal because of ...

and survival after brachytherapy of small to medium sized choroidal melanoma (CM) with a high dose rate (HDR) strontium-90 (Sr-90) applicator. Methods: From 1983 until 2000, 98 eyes with CM were ...

You can have plaque radiotherapy for different types of eye cancer. For example, a small or medium size melanoma inside the eye, such as choroidal or ciliary body melanomas. You can’t have this ...

The stage of melanoma skin cancer tells you how thick it is and how far it has spread. Doctors use different systems to stage melanoma. These include the TNM system and number staging system. The ...

But there is a wide gap between how well White patients fare compared to Black patients. Melanoma is one of the cancers that it is contributing to the hopeful trend of declining cancer mortality rate ...

mRNA specialist BioNTech has chalked up an important win in its cancer pipeline, showing efficacy with its BNT111 vaccine candidate in a phase 2 trial in advanced melanoma. The study is looking at ...