Question:
My sister (41 years old) has just been diagnosed with recurrent
melanoma. She had interferon treatment that ended 3 years
ago and it has come back. The situation is very serious.
I would really appreciate any advice and information on
aggressive treatments.
Answer:
Try looking in MEDLINE using PubMed. It is at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Find
the Advanced Search screen and select MeSH Terms from the Select Field
menu. In the box, type: melanoma AND salvage therapy
You can also experiment with different terms like:
melanoma/dt (drug therapy)
melanoma/sc (metastatic melanoma)
neoplasm recurrence, local
treatment outcome
prognosis
survival analysis
survival rate
antineoplastic agents, combined/tu
melanoma/rt (radiotherapy)
gene therapy
biological response modifiers/tu
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