[Treatment of cutaneous nevocarcinomas]

For long, malignant melanoma of the skin was never treated other than surgically; in spite of considerable effort in this field, a large number of them remained with a very poor prognosis. In the severest cases, it was noted that the prognosis was little influenced by recent therapeutic progress. The latter, however, in the light of recent experience, seemed to justify the hope which was placed in it initially. The object of this report is to relate modern progress in the treatment based on clinical and pathological findings. It is the result of work undertaken during recent years by the research group on malignant melanomas of the Lariboisiére-Saint-Louis hospitals.