Table 2.

Clinical characteristics of patients: survival and sites of metastatic disease

		Survival (months) since diagnosis of:
	Patient	Primary melanoma	Cutaneous recurrence or unresectable regional lymph node metastasis	Visceral or distant nodal metastasis
Slow progressors	1	79	71
	2	52		24
	3	156	81	47
	4	156	120	94
	5	82	58	47
	6	98	74
	7	107	107
	8	126	67	63
Controls	9	41	41
	10	228	48
	11	34	4
	12	22	5
	13	16	12
	14	17	17
	15	46	18
	16*	40

^*This elderly patient was receiving medical therapy for an unresected lentigo maligna melanoma of the face.