Basal cell carcinoma: 10-year experience with electrochemotherapy

Journal of Translational Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Campana, Luca G ^a,b   Marconato, Roberto ^c   Valpione, Sara ^a,d   Galuppo, Sara ^b   Alaibac, Mauro ^a   Rossi, Carlo R ^a,b   Mocellin, Simone ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b VENETO INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY IOV IRCCS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^d CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basal cell carcinoma; Bleomycin; Electrochemotherapy; Neoplasm recurrence; Skin neoplasms

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CYTOTOXIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER CONTROL; CLEARANCE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; EDEMA; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN TOXICITY; SKIN ULCER; TUMOR VOLUME; VERY ELDERLY; CHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLEOMYCIN; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CYTOTOXINS; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85020020400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14795876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12967-017-1225-5     Document Type: Article

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