Effective treatment of multiple unresectable skin melanoma metastases by electrochemotherapy.
Multiple unresectable melanoma skin metastases pose a treatment problem, especially in centers where isolated limb perfusion is not available. We report the case of a 59-year-old woman who developed multiple small unresectable cutaneous melanoma metastases on the thigh after her lower limb was amputated. Electrochemotherapy with bleomycin resulted in good local control of the disease, with a complete response of the treated melanoma nodules (224 tumor nodules) after 4 treatment sessions. Comparison between electrochemotherapy using repetition frequency of the applied electric pulses of 1 Hz and 5 kHz demonstrated equal antitumor effectiveness. Electrochemotherapy with intravenous bleomycin can also be used as a treatment of choice for local control of multiple unresectable cutaneous melanoma skin metastases.
Snoj
Marko
M
Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Cemazar
Maja
M
Slekovec Kolar
Breda
B
Sersa
Gregor
G
D053672:Electrochemotherapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma; D008875:Middle Aged; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*