Effective treatment of intractable cutaneous metastases of breast cancer with electrochemotherapy: Ten-year audit of single centre experience

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• 作者：Mike G. Bourke ; Slav P. Salwa ; Mira Sadadcharam…
• 关键词：Electrochemotherapy ; Breast cancer ; Cutaneous metastases ; Locoregional recurrence ; Bleomycin
• 刊名：Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：161
• 期：2
• 页码：289-297
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Oncology;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-7217
• 卷排序：161

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PurposeElectrochemotherapy (ECT) is the application of electric pulses to tumour tissue to render the cell membranes permeable to usually impermeant hydrophilic anti-cancer drugs, thereby enhancing cytotoxic effects. We sought to ascertain whether ECT can be an effective palliative treatment for cutaneous metastases of breast cancer.