title: Electrochemotherapy in the Treatment of Massive, Multisite Breast Cancer Metastasis to the Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue: A Case Report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Chest wall recurrence (CWR) from breast cancer after mastectomy is a difficult to treat disease. Electrochemotherapy (ECT) provides a safe, efficient, and non-invasive locoregional treatment approach in this setting.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 61-year-old woman presented with unresectable breast cancer recurrence to the skin and subcutaneous tissue for which numerous lines of treatment were unsuccessful. Between February 2015 and May 2015, the patient underwent 3 courses of ECT after which a spectacular regression of the cutaneous metastatic foci was observed. After an overall observation period of 12 weeks, complete clinical remission was achieved.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  ECT can be proposed as an effective and safe locoregional therapy for breast cancer CWR and provides an alternative treatment modality to conventional therapies, especially in the case of multiple cutaneous and subcutaneous lesions.
authors.affiliation: Oncological and General Surgery Ward I, the Greater Poland Cancer Center, Poznan, Poland, Poznan, Poland.
authors.forename: Mateusz
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wichtowski
authors.affiliation: Oncology Department, University Hospital, Śniadeckich 10, Kraków, Poland, Poznan, Poland.
authors.forename: Paweł
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Potocki
authors.affiliation: Chemotherapy Ward, the Greater Poland Cancer Center, Poznan, Poland.
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kufel-Grabowska
authors.affiliation: Oncology Department, University Hospital, Śniadeckich 10, Kraków, Poland, Poznan, Poland.
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Streb
authors.affiliation: Oncological and General Surgery Ward I, the Greater Poland Cancer Center, Poznan, Poland, Poznan, Poland; Provincial Specialist Hospital in Wrocław, Research and Development Center, Wrocław, Poland, Poznan, Poland.
authors.forename: Dawid
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Murawa
keywords: Bleomycin; Breast cancer; Chest wall recurrence; Electrochemotherapy