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Treatment of metastatic melanoma with electrochemotherapy
Author(s) -
Campana Luca G.,
Testori Alessandro,
Mozzillo Nicola,
Rossi Carlo Riccardo
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.23512
Subject(s) - electrochemotherapy , medicine , refractory (planetary science) , metastatic melanoma , melanoma , toxicity , disease , dermatology , oncology , surgery , chemotherapy , bleomycin , cancer research , physics , astrobiology
Superficially metastatic melanoma still represents a challenging situation for oncologists and a distressing condition for patients. In this circumstance, local treatment by electrochemotherapy, that is, the combination of brief permeabilizing electric pulses with a low‐toxicity anticancer drug, can be a valuable treatment option in selected patients who are ineligible/refractory to systemic treatments or require rapid palliation of symptomatic cutaneous disease. J. Surg. Oncol. 2014 109:301–307 . © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.