Electrochemotherapy for the management of cutaneous and subcutaneous metastasis: A series of 39 patients treated with palliative intent

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 270-274

  Solari, Nicola ^a   Spagnolo, Francesco ^a   Ponte, Erica ^a   Quaglia, Alberto ^a   Lillini, Roberto ^a   Battista, Michela ^b   Queirolo, Paola ^a   Cafiero, Ferdinando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b IGEA SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

bleomycin; electrochemotherapy; electroporation; in transit metastases; melanoma

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN METASTASIS; SKIN PAIN; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VERY ELDERLY;

BLEOMYCIN; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTROPORATION; IN-TRANSIT METASTASES; MELANOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84893689942     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.23481     Document Type: Article

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