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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg Oncol. 2012 May 31;19(8):2547–2555. doi: 10.1245/s10434-012-2398-z

Table 2.

Median survival (months) from diagnosis of stage IV recurrent melanoma in MSLT-I patients, based on treatment, number of organs involved, and number of individual metastases.

Organ sites with
metastases (N)
Surgery Non-surgical P value
Median
Survival (N)
Percentage Median Survival
(N)
Percentage
1 (242) 17.6 (144) 60% 7.5 (98) 40% <0.0001
2 (35) 13.4 (14) 40% 6.6 (21) 60% 0.056
≥3 (14) 4.5 (3) 21% 4.8 (11) 79% 0.36
Individual
metastases
1 (226) 16.3 (134) 59% 7.5 (92) 41% <0.0001
2(43) 17.1 (20) 47% 6.9 (23) 53% 0.0364
≥3 (22) 13.9 (7) 32% 5.2 (15) 68% 0.085