Electrochemotherapy can be used as palliative treatment in patients with repeated loco-regional recurrence of squamous vulvar cancer: A preliminary study

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 550-553

  Perrone, Anna Myriam ^a   Galuppi, Andrea ^a   Cima, Simona ^a   Pozzati, Federica ^a   Arcelli, Alessandra ^a   Cortesi, Annalisa ^a   Procaccini, Martina ^a   Pellegrini, Alice ^a   Zamagni, Claudio ^a   De Iaco, Pierandrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electrochemotherapy; Palliative cure; Recurrence; Vulvar cancer

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT CANCER; SEDATION; TREATMENT DURATION; VULVA CANCER;

ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; PALLIATIVE CURE; RECURRENCE; VULVAR CANCER;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BLEOMYCIN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84882448662     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2013.06.028     Document Type: Article

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