Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the vagina treated by radiotherapy: a failures analysis--the M. D. Anderson Hospital experience 1955-1982.

The retrospective study concerns 167 patients with primary squamous cell carcinoma of the vagina treated at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute between January 1955 and December 1982.

Radiotherapy in nonlentiginous melanoma of the head and neck.

Thirty-seven patients with superficial spreading or nodular melanoma of the head and neck treated with irradiation are reviewed. Twenty-one patients were referred within three months of surgery. Six had an incisional biopsy followed by postoperative irradiation, 4 were locally controlled (1 dying of metastatic melanoma, 2 dying of intercurrent disease and 1 is alive and well), and 2 were not (both dead of melanoma).

The radiotherapy of lentigo maligna and lentigo maligna melanoma of the head and neck.

Between 1958 and 1977, 8 cases of lentigo maligna (LM) and 15 cases of lentigo maligna melanoma (LMM) were treated with radiotherapy at the Princess Margaret Hospital. Only 1 of the 8 cases of LM recurred following irradiation and this recurrence was controlled with further radiotherapy. Of 15 cases of LMM, 14 were controlled by irradiation for periods ranging from two months to six years postradiotherapy; the 1 recurrence was salvaged with local excision.