Matthew T Ballo

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..Completion cervical lymphadenectomy is usually performed after excisional biopsy of nodal metastases from melanoma. Radiation (XRT) might be effective for some patients in lieu of formal lymph node dissection...

..To evaluate the outcome and patterns of failure for patients with nodal metastases from melanoma treated with combined-modality therapy...

..Although the application of HDR brachytherapy to soft tissue sarcoma is relatively new, it seems to result in a satisfactory local control rate and may replace traditional low-dose-rate techniques...

..To evaluate the clinical significance of the interval between surgery and postoperative radiotherapy (RT) for patients with soft tissue sarcoma...

..To evaluate the clinical outcomes of patients with localized retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcoma (STS) treated with complete surgical resection and radiation...

..The risk of regional disease recurrence after surgery alone for lymph node metastases from melanoma is well documented. The role of adjuvant irradiation remains controversial...

..To evaluate the outcome and toxicity of a sphincter-sparing treatment strategy in the management of patients with anal-rectal melanoma...

..This article focuses primarily on the role of radiation for malignant soft tissue sarcoma and selected borderline tumors...

..To evaluate the outcome and treatment-related toxicity for patients with axillary lymph node metastases from malignant melanoma treated with surgery and radiation, with or without systemic therapy...

..This will be the topic of future research...

..Although patients with inguinal or pelvic lymph node (LN) metastases from melanoma may develop regional recurrence after dissection, the role of adjuvant radiotherapy remains controversial...

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..The potential benefits of such reresection have not been documented adequately...

..Correlations between various patient, tumor, and treatment characteristics and complications in patients undergoing combined modality treatment for primary lower extremity soft-tissue sarcomas were investigated...

..We conducted a prospective trial to define the local recurrence rates for selected patients with T1 soft tissue sarcomas (STS) treated by surgery alone...

..No systemic therapy regimen has been recognized as effective for metastatic mucosal melanoma of the head and neck. We retrospectively analyzed the effectiveness of biochemotherapy in patients with advanced head and neck mucosal melanoma...

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..It may also serve as an alternative to sentinel lymph node biopsy, particularly for patients for whom dissection and systemic therapy are not therapeutic options...

..Prognostic factors for local recurrence, metastatic recurrence, lymph node recurrence, disease free survival, and disease specific survival are different, and optimal treatment strategies need to take this complexity into account...

..To evaluate the local control rates and patterns of metastatic relapse in patients with localized myxoid liposarcoma treated with conservation surgery and radiotherapy (RT)...

..Patients believed to be at higher risk for MWCs undergoing RSS closure have MWC rates comparable to those with lower-risk wounds closed by the primary team...

..We evaluated the long-term outcome of patients with operable RPS who were treated with protocol-based preoperative radiotherapy followed by complete surgical resection...

..Whereas the treatment approach for patients with mixed DM should be similar to that of other melanoma patients, patients with pure DM are unlikely to have metastatic disease in regional lymph nodes and SLNB may not be warranted...

..There was a slight increase in long-term complications with postoperative XRT, likely due to the higher doses used in this sequence...

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..Decisions as to the most appropriate treatment sequence for any individual patient can be made regardless of considerations as to the effectiveness of one sequence compared with the other...

..To evaluate prognostic factors and treatment outcomes in patients with localized synovial sarcoma treated with conservation surgery and radiotherapy (RT)...

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..Soft-tissue sarcomas frequently rest in contact with bone. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the risk of local recurrence for sarcomas adjacent to bone and to determine whether the periosteum provides an adequate margin of resection...

..To document the prognostic factors for survival of patients with soft-tissue sarcoma sustaining a first relapse after definitive treatment...

..CONCLUSIONS: In this series of 55 patients with angiosarcoma of the breast, radiation therapy-naive angiosarcomas occurred in younger patients, but they behaved similarly to radiation therapy-associated angiosarcomas...

..CONCLUSIONS: For patients with T2 STS, rCT was most cost-effective in patients with high-grade lesions or extremity lesions. The findings of this study do not support the routine use of chest CT scanning in all patients with T2 STS...

..Our aim was to review our experience with liposarcoma of the head and neck region...

..Local control is satisfactory for sites other than parameningeal where new radiation technologies such as intensity-modulated therapy may be necessary to safely deliver adequate doses...

..CONCLUSION: EOO should be considered clinically and therapeutically distinct from osseous osteosarcoma. Radiographic response rates and pathologic complete response rates to doxorubicin-based systemic therapy are low...

..To evaluate long-term outcomes in patients with desmoid fibromatosis treated with radiation therapy (RT), with or without surgery...

..Potential advantages include avoiding flap irradiation, reducing wound size and magnitude of the reconstructive procedure, and ensuring tumor-free surgical margins before definitive reconstruction...

..Thus, we determined whether clinical characteristics and treatment were associated with recurrence and survival rates in patients with SS of the head and neck...

..Patients with metastatic anorectal melanoma generally have an unfavorable prognosis, but no effective systemic therapy has been reported...

..The objective of the current study was to analyze the potential treatment-related mortality in long-term survivors of soft-tissue sarcoma (STS) treated with radiotherapy (RT) and conservation surgery...

..To determine the incidence of potentially treatment-related mortality in long-term survivors of testicular seminoma treated by orchiectomy and radiation therapy (XRT)...

..In heavily pretreated patients, however, RT delivered as it was in this series can result in poor local control, and alternative therapies should be considered...

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..CONCLUSION: After gross total resection, soft tissue sarcoma with features predictive of a higher than average local recurrence rate benefited from doses of 64-68 Gy compared with 60 Gy...

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..To outline the indications for and our experience with postoperative adjuvant external-beam radiotherapy (EBRT) in patients with eyelid or conjunctival cancers...

..To determine the effect of the curvature of Harrison-Anderson-Mick applicators on the dose distribution in high-dose-rate intraoperative radiation therapy (HDR-IORT)...