Table 1 Merkel cell carcinoma treated with radiotherapy alone in the past 20 years in Japan
No. | Author | Year | Age/sex | Sites | Stage | Dose | Response | Recurrence | F/U period | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
H&N | Limbs | I | II | III | IV | (Gy) | (months) | ||||||
1 | A. Aoki | 1995 | 90F | 1 | 1 | 40 | SD | + | 0 | ||||
2 | H. Okada | 1995 | 83F | 1 | 1 | 30 | CR | + | 9 | ||||
3 | S. Nasu | 1997 | 88F | 1 | 1 | 38 | CR | 14 | |||||
4 | K. Murata | 1997 | 89F | 1 | 1 | 60 | CR | N/A | |||||
5 | T. Inoue | 1999 | 96M | 1 | 1 | 50 | CR | 4 | |||||
6 | Y. Handa | 2000 | 88M | 1 | 1 | 51 | CR | 9 | |||||
7 | H. Ono | 2001 | 78F | 1 | 1 | 50 | CR | 9 | |||||
8 | S. Seki | 2003 | 60M | 1 | 1 | 56 | CR | 21 | |||||
9 | 69F | 1 | 1 | 60 | CR | 5 | |||||||
10 | N. Narita | 2004 | 96M | 1 | 1 | 66 | CR | + | 1 | ||||
11 | E. Makino | 2005 | 84F | 1 | 1 | 48 | CR | 8 | |||||
12 | T. Nakamura | 2005 | 83F | 1 | 1 | 60 | CR | + | 2 | ||||
13 | A. Niiya | 2006 | 72F | 1 | 1 | 60 | CR | + | 24 | ||||
14 | 66F | 1 | 1 | 60 | CR | 18 | |||||||
15 | T. Yamakawa | 2008 | 98F | 1 | 1 | 36 | CR | 12 | |||||
16 | R. Maeda | 2010 | 86F | 1 | 1 | 70 | CR | 19 | |||||
17 | J. Hujitaka | 2011 | 87M | 1 | 1 | 54 | CR | 32 | |||||
18 | K. Hanaoka | 2011 | 90F | 1 | 1 | 28 | CR | + | 4 | ||||
19 | A. Saito | 2012 | 90F | 1 | 1 | 45 | CR | 12 | |||||
20 | 80M | 1 | 1 | 60 | CR | 22 | |||||||
21 | 86M | 1 | 1 | 70 | CR | + | 12 | ||||||
22 | Present case | 2014 | 75M | 1 | 1 | 65 | CR | 12 | |||||
19 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 52.6 ± 12.2 | CR:21, SD:1 | 7/22 | 11.0 ± 8.4 | ||||