Efficacy and safety of electrochemotherapy in the treatment of soft tissue sarcomas in dogs

  • Ron Lowe
  • Filippo Torrigiani
  • Alessio Pierini
  • Joe Impellizeri
  • George Lubas
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Publication date
January 2017
Publisher
place:Lakewood, CO, USA
Language
English

Abstract

Soft Tissue Sarcomas (STS) represent up to 15% of all skin and subcutaneous tumours in dogs. Local tumour control with wide surgical margins or a combination of surgery and radiation therapy is the standard of care in the management of STS, however these approaches are not always possible due to anatomic location and/or expense of the treatment. Electrochemotherapy (ECT) is an emerging, locally ablative technique now available in the United States. ECT has been available in Europe for over a decade and is a standard therapy for cancer treatment in people and animals. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of ECT with intravenous bleomycin in the treatment of STS in dogs. Fifty-three client owned dogs with 55 STS...

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