Official Title: A Phase II Trial of Complete Surgical Resection For Stage IV Melanoma -- Surgical Resection With Biological Evaluation and Clinical Follow-Up
Status: COMPLETED
Status Verified Date: 2012-01
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: False
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: None
Brief Summary: RATIONALE Surgery may be effective therapy in treating patients with metastatic melanoma
PURPOSE This phase II trial is studying how well surgery works in treating patients with metastatic melanoma
Detailed Description: OBJECTIVES
Assess overall and progression-free survival in patients with metastatic melanoma beyond the draining lymph nodes after complete surgical resection of all known disease Determine the ability of the Southwest Oncology Group Melanoma Committee to enroll patients with metastatic melanoma who can be resected to a disease-free state
OUTLINE This is a multicenter study
All patients undergo gross total resection of all known disease Patients whose disease cannot be completely resected or who have disease recurrence after surgery are removed from study Patients found to have microscopic residual disease after surgery are considered completely resected Resected tissue is submitted for analysis on protocol SWOG-9431
Patients may receive any adjuvant therapy eg radiotherapy interferon andor vaccines deemed clinically appropriate by the treating physician
Patients are followed periodically for 5 years after study entry
PROJECTED ACCRUAL A total of 100 eligible patients with completely surgically resected disease will be accrued for this study