Effective treatment of an extensive recurrent breast cancer which was refractory to multimodal therapy by multiple applications of electrochemotherapy

European Journal of Cancer, Supplement

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 32-34

  Whelan, Maria C ^a,b   Larkin, John O ^a,b   Collins, Christopher G ^a,b   Cashman, James ^a,b   Breathnach, Oscar ^b   Soden, Declan M ^a   O'Sullivan, Gerald C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b MERCY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Chest wall recurrences; Electrochemotherapy; Recurrent breast cancer; Unresponsive cancers

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; GEMCITABINE; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL; TRASTUZUMAB;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 33750518393     PISSN: 13596349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcsup.2006.07.006     Document Type: Article

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