Patients survival after radical and palliative surgical treatment of gastrointestinal melanoma metastases.

e20104 Background: Malignant melanoma represents one of the most common malignancies metastasizing to gastrointestinal tract. The aim of this study was to investigate the outcome of patients undergone therapeutic or palliative surgery for melanoma metastases to gastrointestinal tract. Methods: The clinicopathological data of 90 stage IV melanoma patients undergone surgical resection for gastrointestinal metastases at the National Cancer Institute of Milan from 1985 to 2014 were evaluated. The performed surgical procedures were radical or palliative resections. Results: The intent of surgery was palliative in 60 patients (66.7%) and curative in 30 (33.3%). The 5-year survival for the whole patients who received complete and incomplete resections were 28% and 4% respectively (p < 0,001). A radical surgery performed in the gastrointestinal tract resulted to be related to a better survival irrespectively to the presence of melanoma metastases in other districts. Also a palliative surgical treatment was relate...