ReviewBiomedical engineering online2014
Electrochemotherapy: from the drawing board into medical practice.
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146 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 355 citations in OpenAlex.
- Electrochemotherapy in pediatrics: a systematic review.European radiology · 2026Pooled it
- Assessment of Ablation Therapy in Pancreatic Cancer: The Radiologist's Challenge.Frontiers in oncology · 2020Pooled it
- Electrochemotherapy in the treatment of locally advanced or recurrent eyelid-periocular basal cell carcinomas.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
- Biophysical principles of pulsed field ablation.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2026Review
- Advancing Electrochemotherapy in Melanoma and Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer: From Clinical Practice to Emerging Frontiers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- A Three-Dimensional Hyaluronic Acid-Based Scaffold Model for Electroporation-Enhanced Resveratrol Therapy in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.Cell biochemistry and biophysics · 2026Article
- Optimization of electrode material and geometry to enhance TTFields-like anticancer effects in MCF-7 breast cancer cells.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Biomaterial-Integrated Electroporation for Therapeutic Delivery: From Gene Editing to Tumor Ablation and Immune Modulation.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Review
- Electrical resistance measurement in feline cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma treated with electrochemotherapy: a pilot study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Phospholipid Saturation Modulates Cholesterol Partitioning and Heat Transport in Lipid Bilayers under Thermal Gradients.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2026Article
- Bleomycin ElectroScleroTherapy (BEST): mechanistic parallels to electrochemotherapy, experimental models, and unresolved questions.Radiology and oncology · 2026Review
- Assessment of Fecal Microbiota in Healthy Dogs and Dogs with Cutaneous Mast Cell Tumors Treated with Electrochemotherapy Combined with Gene Electrotransfer of IL-12.Veterinary sciences · 2026Article
- The Rising Power of Electrochemotherapy in Musculoskeletal Oncology.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026Review
- Outcome of dogs with low- and high-grade mast cell tumors treated with electrochemotherapy.Journal of veterinary internal medicine · 2026Article
- Electricity-Based Locoregional Cancer Therapies and Their Associated Drug Delivery Technologies: From Principles of Action to Clinical Implications.Biomaterials research · 2026Review
- Potentiation of Electrochemotherapy by Anti-PD-1 Immunotherapy in Murine Tumors with Distinct Immune Profiles.Cancers · 2025Article
- Invasive properties of patient-derived glioblastoma cells after reversible electroporationRadiology and oncology · 2025Article
- Distribution of relaxation times as a tool to monitor tissue electroporation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Electrochemotherapy in the Treatment of Bone Metastases: A Narrative Review.Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · 2025Review
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Electrochemotherapy is a local treatment of cancer employing electric pulses to improve transmembrane transfer of cytotoxic drugs. In this paper we discuss electrochemotherapy from the perspective of biomedical engineering and review the steps needed to move such a treatment from initial prototypes into clinical practice. In the paper also basic theory of electrochemotherapy and preclinical studies in vitro and in vivo are briefly reviewed. Following this we present a short review of recent clinical publications and discuss implementation of electrochemotherapy into standard of care for treatment of skin tumors, and use of electrochemotherapy for other targets such as head and neck cancer, deep-seated tumors in the liver and intestinal tract, and brain metastases. Electrodes used in these specific cases are presented with their typical voltage amplitudes used in electrochemotherapy. Finally, key points on what should be investigated in the future are presented and discussed.
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