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ArticleMolecular and clinical oncology2022

Proton beam therapy followed by pembrolizumab for giant ocular surface conjunctival malignant melanoma: A case report.

Toshihiko Matsuo, Osamu Yamasaki, Takehiro Tanaka, Kuniaki Katsui, Takahiro Waki

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Article in Molecular and clinical oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Toshihiko MatsuoRegenerative and Reconstructive Medicine (Ophthalmology), Okayama University Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.
Osamu YamasakiDepartment of Dermatology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.
Takehiro TanakaDepartment of Pathology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.
Kuniaki KatsuiDivision of Radiation Oncology, Department of Radiology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama 701-0192, Japan.
Takahiro WakiDepartment of Radiology, Tsuyama Chuo Hospital, Tsuyama, Okayama 708-0841, Japan.
Okayama University · JPKawasaki Medical School · JPTsuyama Chuo Hospital · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present study describes proton beam therapy as a clinical option to achieve local control of giant conjunctival melanoma in an aged person, instead of orbital exenteration. An 80-year-old woman with one-year history of left-eye injection and hemorrhage experienced rapid growth of the ocular surface black mass. At the initial visit, a black, elastic hard, hemorrhage-prone, thickened mass in the size of 30x40 mm with a presumed wide stalk covered the total area of the lid fissure on the left side. Biopsy of the mass demonstrated anomalous melanin-containing cells in fibrin and hemorrhage, which were positive for cocktail-mix antibodies against tyrosinase, melanoma antigen recognized by T cells-1 and human melanoma black-45, indicative of malignant melanoma. One month after the initial visit, the patient underwent proton beam therapy at the total dose of 70.4 Gy (relative biological effectiveness) in 32 fractions (~10 min each) in one and a half months. One month after the end of proton beam therapy, 3.5 months from the initial visit, the patient was found by computed tomographic scan to have multiple metastatic lesions in bilateral lung fields. With the evidence of absent

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conjunctivacorneal perforationimmune checkpoint inhibitormalignant melanomaocular surfacePD-1 inhibitorpembrolizumabproton beam therapy

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