title: Effective treatment of multiple unresectable skin melanoma metastases by electrochemotherapy.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Marko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Snoj
authors.forename: Maja
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cemazar
authors.forename: Breda
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Slekovec Kolar
authors.forename: Gregor
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sersa
mesh_terms: D053672:Electrochemotherapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma; D008875:Middle Aged; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*