[Therapy of malignant melanoma with beta-interferons]

G Faulhaber1, W Lechner, H Röckl

  • 1Dermatologische Klinik, Universität Würzburg.

Zeitschrift Fur Hautkrankheiten
|October 15, 1988
PubMed

Since June, 1985, we have been treating 18 evaluable patients suffering from high risk melanoma with human beta-interferon (HBIF), 10 of the patients received HBIF infusions, 8 patients got subcutaneous injections into the regional lymph nodes. In some of the cases, this treatment resulted in obviously prolonged survival times; at present, however, the effect of HBIF is still beyond calculation.

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