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ECT: Limited clinical publication volume39 publications

Bone & Soft Tissue Sarcomas

In bone metastases and soft tissue sarcomas, electrochemotherapy has been studied for pain palliation, local control and preoperative volume reduction. The high impedance of bone and the need for imaging guidance in electrode placement are technical themes specific to this area.

64publication records61 unique studies once versions are merged
25clinical publication records
27preclinical publication records
11reviews
1997–2026publication span

Clinical publications: randomized, prospective and retrospective studies, case series and case reports. Preclinical publications: animal, in vitro, modelling and experimental biophysics studies.

Clinical and Technical Data Reported in the Publications

The sum of the fields reported in the full text of the 64 publications in this area. The numbers are summed, not interpreted.

Sum of the patient counts reported across publications608 (reported in 28 publications)
Total lesions reported707 (in 18 publications)
Devices used (41 publications naming a device)Cliniporator VITAE (12) · NanoKnife (6) · Cliniporator (5) · Jouan GHT 1287 (4) · Square Electroporator CUY-21 (2) · GT-01 (2)
Agent delivered and route (44 publications reporting an agent)bleomycin · intravenous (24) · bleomycin · intratumoural (5) · cisplatin · intratumoural (3) · cisplatin · intravenous (2) · other · intravenous (2) · plasmid DNA · intratumoural (2)
Approach (50 publications report it)percutaneous (37) · open surgical (8) · transcutaneous surface (4) · intraoperative (1)
Image guidance (41 publications report it)computed tomography (23) · direct vision (16) · fluoroscopy (7) · ultrasound (6) · magnetic resonance imaging (1)
Response criteria (25 publications report it)other (6) · RECIST 1.1 (6) · RECIST (5) · clinical examination (5) · histological (1)
Combination therapy (37 publications report it)systemic chemotherapy (21) · other combination (11) · radiotherapy (6) · surgery (3) · other immunotherapy (3)
Publications reporting retreatment18 of 50 publications (14 do not report it)
Field strength50–1750 V/cm (35 records, median 1000)
Applied voltage150–3000 V (10 records, median 2000)
Number of pulses6–120 (41 records, median 8)
Pulse duration70–100000 µs (40 records, median 100)

The totals are not a count of unique patients: the same cohort may have been reported in more than one publication.

Literature Status by Method

Publication count, clinical and preclinical split, literature volume and publication span for each clinical method. The badge at the top of the page summarises the ECT record only; the full split by method is here.

Electrochemotherapy (ECT)

39publication records
18clinical publication records
17preclinical publication records

Limited clinical publication volumethreshold 7/39 records

Clinical and preclinical split of that figure: 5 clinical, 1 preclinical.

1997–2026

Irreversible electroporation (IRE)

13publication records
6clinical publication records
4preclinical publication records

Exploratory / low-volume literaturethreshold 3/13 records

Clinical and preclinical split of that figure: 1 clinical, 0 preclinical.

2011–2026

Calcium electroporation

1publication records
0clinical publication records
0preclinical publication records

Exploratory / low-volume literaturethreshold 0/1 records

No record for this method feeds the volume label.

2019–2019

Gene electrotransfer

3publication records
0clinical publication records
3preclinical publication records

Exploratory / low-volume literaturethreshold 0/3 records

No record for this method feeds the volume label.

2006–2013

Other electroporation applications

8publication records
1clinical publication records
3preclinical publication records

This set does not name a single clinical method; no literature volume is assigned.

2000–2024

Mechanisms Mentioned in Abstracts

The figure is the number of abstracts mentioning the mechanism. A mention does not mean it was demonstrated in that study.

Reversible Membrane Permeabilisation 19 Increased Intracellular Bleomycin Accumulation 18 Irreversible Pore Formation and Cell Death 15 Increased Intracellular Cisplatin Accumulation 9 Electric Field Distribution and Modelling 9 Potentiation of Cytotoxic Drug Permeability 7 Electrode Geometry and Placement 7 Necrosis and Necroptosis 5 Haemostasis and Bleeding Control 4 Gene Electrotransfer (Plasmid DNA) 3 Apoptosis Induction 3 Systemic / Abscopal Immune Response 2

Study Type Distribution

The percentage gives the share of the whole area.

Study typePublicationsShare within this area
Prospective Clinical Study2
3%
Clinical Study8
12%
Retrospective Clinical Study1
2%
Case Series1
2%
Case Report13
20%
Review11
17%
Animal Study20
31%
In Vitro Study2
3%
In Silico / Modelling4
6%
Experimental Biophysics Study1
2%
Correction / Erratum1
2%

Publication Table

64 publication records sorted by study design. Click a title to open the citation, mechanism and full abstract drawer.

Classifications are generated automatically and can be wrong for individual records. Methodology

64 publication records shown

RegimePublicationYearStudy typeModelMechanismPatients / lesionsDeviceAgent and routeReported outcomeAbstract
ECT
Ottlakan et al · Bioelectrochemistry
2022Prospective Clinical StudyHumanIncreased Intracellular Bleomycin Accumulation, Electrode Geometry and Placement7 / 7Cliniporator VITAEbleomycin · intravenouspartial response 5 count (7 patients)The aim of the current prospective pilot study exclusively for deep-seated soft tissue sarcomas (STS) was to evaluate efficacy and safety of bleomycin-based ECT using VEG (variable electrode…
IRE
Martin et al · BMC Cancer
2014Prospective Clinical StudyHumanIrreversible Pore Formation and Cell Death, Reversible Membrane Permeabilisation107 / 117NanoKnife–local recurrence 12.7 monthsBackground: Irreversible electroporation (IRE) has recently been added as an additional therapeutic ablative option in patients with locally advanced cancers (LAC) involving vital structures…
ECT
Cevolani et al · J Surg Oncol
2023Clinical StudyHumanNecrosis and Necroptosis–Cliniporator VITAE––Background: Bone metastases are frequent in patients with cancer. Electrochemotherapy (ECT) is a minimally invasive treatment based on a high-voltage electric pulse combined with an anticanc…
ECT
Campanacci et al · Curr Oncol
2022Clinical StudyHuman–38Cliniporator VITAEbleomycin · intravenousobjective response 25% (37 patients)Bone metastases induce pain, risk of fracture, and neural compression, and reduced mobility and quality of life. Electrochemotherapy (ECT) is a minimally invasive local treatment based on a …
ECT
Campanacci et al · Eur J Surg Oncol
2021Clinical StudyHuman–102Cliniporator VITAEbleomycin · intravenousobjective response 40.4% (89 patients)Introduction: Bone metastases are frequent in patients with cancer. Electrochemotherapy (ECT) is a minimally invasive treatment. Preclinical and clinical studies supported the use of ECT in …
ECT
Simioni et al · Sci Rep
2020Clinical StudyHumanIncreased Intracellular Bleomycin Accumulation, Electrode Geometry and Placement30Cliniporator VITAEbleomycin · intravenouscomplete response 63% (30 patients)Standard electrochemotherapy (ECT) is effective in many tumour types but is confined to the treatment of small superficial lesions. Variable electrode-geometry ECT (VEG-ECT) may overcome the…
ECT
Bianchi et al · World J Surg
2016Clinical StudyHuman–29Cliniporator VITAEbleomycin · intravenousobjective response 1 count (20 patients)Introduction: Bone metastatic disease is a major cause of pain and decreased quality of life in patients with cancer. In addition to systemic therapy and pain control with narcotic analgesic…
ECT
Guida et al · Annals of Oncology
2016Clinical StudyHuman–19 / 54–bleomycin · intravenousobjective response 63% (19 patients)Angiosarcoma is an aggressive vascular neoplasm with a high propensity for local recurrence. Electrochemotherapy is an emerging skin-directed therapy, © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford …
ECT
Guida et al · European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO)
2016Clinical StudyHumanIncreased Intracellular Bleomycin Accumulation, Antivascular Effect and Vessel Disruption19 / 54–bleomycin · intravenousobjective response 63% (19 patients)Angiosarcoma is an aggressive vascular neoplasm with a high propensity for local recurrence. Electrochemotherapy is an emerging skin-directed therapy, which exerts prominent anti-tumour acti…
ECT
Campana et al · World J Surg
2013Clinical StudyHumanElectrode Geometry and Placement, Increased Intracellular Bleomycin Accumulation34 / 71–bleomycin · intravenousobjective response 92.2% (71 lesions)Aims: Our aim was to evaluate the activity, toxicity, and feasibility of electrochemotherapy (ECT) in patients with soft-tissue sarcomas (STS). Methods: A two-stage phase II trial was conduc…
ECT
Deschamps et al · Eur J Cancer
2023Retrospective Clinical StudyHumanIncreased Intracellular Bleomycin Accumulation40Cliniporator VITAEbleomycin · intravenoustumour volume change 46% (35 patients)Objective: To report efficacy and safety of percutaneous electrochemotherapy (ECT) in patients with radiotherapy-resistant metastatic epidural spinal cord compression (MESCC). Material/ meth…
ECT
Tedesco et al · J Clin Med
2024Case SeriesHumanIncreased Intracellular Bleomycin Accumulation2Cliniporator VITAEbleomycin · intravenous–(1) Background: this case series and literature review aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of electrochemotherapy in the management of aggressive spinal hemangiomas, presenting two dist…
ECT
Siew et al · Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol
2026Case ReportHumanReversible Membrane Permeabilisation, Electrode Geometry and Placement1 / 1bipolar bone electroporation needlebleomycin · intravenoustumour volume change 100% (1 patients)Vertebral haemangiomas are benign lesions that developed from vascular proliferation within bone marrow spaces [1]. As these malformations do not grow by mitotic activity and lack any malign…
IRE
Pusceddu · Diagn Interv Radiol
2026Case ReportHumanReversible Membrane Permeabilisation, Irreversible Pore Formation and Cell Death1 / 1NanoKnife–complete response 1 count (1 patients)Bone metastases are common in advanced solid tumors and often require local control strategies in addition to systemic therapy. Although thermal ablation is an established method for selecte…
ECT
Angelini et al · Diagnostics (Basel)
2024Case ReportHumanNecrosis and Necroptosis–Cliniporator VITAE––Metastases are complications of primary tumors due to prolonged cancer survival and have become an important issue for oncological patients and the most frequent cause of death and disabilit…
ECT
Parisi et al · –
2023Case Report–Haemostasis and Bleeding Control1–bleomycin · intravenous–Breast Angiosarcoma is a rare malignancy, accounting less than 1% of all soft tissue. It comprises primitive and secondary subtypes, such as radiogenic breast angiosarcoma (RAS). Despite the…
ECT
Albertini et al · Case Rep Med
2020Case ReportHuman–1 / 3Cliniporator VITAEbleomycin · intravenouspartial response 30 days (1 patients)Introduction Metastatic bone disease represents a systemic pathology that heavily affects the quality of life of oncologic patients causing pain and functional disability. Methodology . We p…
ECT
Cornelis et al · Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol
2019Case ReportHuman–2 / 3Cliniporator VITAEbleomycin · intravenous–Two patients underwent percutaneous image-guided electrochemotherapy on blastic spine metastases involving posterior walls of the lumbar vertebral bodies with epidural extension. These treat…
IRE
Qin et al · Technol Cancer Res Treat
2017Case ReportHumanReversible Membrane Permeabilisation, Irreversible Pore Formation and Cell Death1 / 1NanoKnife–complete response 1 count (1 patients)Purpose: To explore the safety and efficacy of irreversible electroporation ablation in unresectable fibrous sarcoma with 2 electrodes. Methods: A 74-year-old woman with unresectable retrope…
Other EP
Mocerino et al · Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol
2016Case ReportHumanIncreased Intracellular Bleomycin Accumulation1–bleomycin · intravenous–Angiosarcomas are malignant tumors of endovascular origin, which may be divided into primary and secondary forms. Secondary breast angiosarcomas are an increasing problem, especially in pati…
IRE
Harris et al · J Pediatr Hematol Oncol
2016Case ReportHumanIrreversible Pore Formation and Cell Death, Reversible Membrane Permeabilisation1 / 1NanoKnife––Irreversible electroporation (IRE) induces apoptosis in tumor cells with electric energy, allowing treatment of unresectable tumors. One potential application is metastatic osteosarcoma (OS)…
IRE
Steinbrecher et al · BMJ Case Rep
2016Case ReportHumanIrreversible Pore Formation and Cell Death, Reversible Membrane Permeabilisation1 / 1––complete response 1 count (1 patients)Ewing's sarcoma (ES) is the second most common paediatric cancer of the bone. Standard therapy includes surgery or radiation for local control of primary and relapsed lesions and chemotherap…
ECT
Bonadies et al · Anticancer Res
2015Case ReportHuman–1 / 1Cliniporatorbleomycin · intravenoustumour volume change 0.5 cm³ (1 patients)Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is an uncommon cutaneous sarcoma with high recurrence rate. Radical surgery is the treatment of choice, although in cosmetically-sensitive areas such a…
IRE
Neal et al · J Clin Oncol
2011Case ReportHumanIrreversible Pore Formation and Cell Death, Reversible Membrane Permeabilisation–NanoKnife–complete response 100% (1 patients)Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is a promising technique for the focal treatment of pathologic tissues that involves placing minimally invasive electrodes within the targeted region. A se…
ECT
Shimizu et al · J Orthop Sci
2003Case ReportHumanIncreased Intracellular Bleomycin Accumulation, Necrosis and Necroptosis1 / 1Square Electroporator CUY-21bleomycin · both intravenous and intratumouraloverall survival 36 months (1 patients)Electrochemotherapy (ECT) delivers nonpermeable anticancer drugs to cell interiors by temporally increasing the permeability of the cytoplasmic membrane under locally applied pulsating elect…
ECT
Deschamps et al · Br J Radiol
2025ReviewHumanElectric Field Distribution and Modelling3–bleomycin · intravenous–This review aims to analyse the safety and clinical efficacy in terms of pain relief and local tumour control, in patients with metastatic epidural spinal cord compression undergoing electro…
Other EP
Berry-Kilgour · Front Bioeng Biotechnol
2024ReviewLiterature AnalysisPreservation of Extracellular Matrix and Tissue Scaffold, Electric Field Distribution and Modelling––––Tissue engineering encompasses a range of techniques that direct the growth of cells into a living tissue construct for regenerative medicine applications, disease models, drug discovery, an…
ECT
Parisi et al · J Clin Med
2024ReviewLiterature AnalysisHaemostasis and Bleeding Control1–bleomycin · intravenouslocal control 1 count (1 patients)Breast angiosarcoma is a rare malignancy, accounting for less than 1% of all soft tissue cancers. It comprises primitive and secondary subtypes, such as radiogenic breast angiosarcoma (RAS).…
ECT
Martin et al · Bioengineering (Basel)
2023ReviewLiterature AnalysisIncreased Intracellular Bleomycin Accumulation29–bleomycin · intravenouscomplete response 10 count (16 patients)The primary aim of this study was to analyze studies that use electrochemotherapy (ECT) in "deep-seated" tumors in solid organs (liver, kidney, bone metastasis, pancreas, and abdomen) and un…
Other EP
Shu · Life (Basel)
2023ReviewLiterature AnalysisReversible Membrane Permeabilisation, Irreversible Pore Formation and Cell Death––––Soft tissue tumors (STTs) include a range of benign and malignant tumors originating from soft tissues. Transarterial and percutaneous therapies are image-guided and minimally invasive appro…
IRE
Sun et al · Anticancer Res
2023ReviewHumanIrreversible Pore Formation and Cell Death, Reversible Membrane Permeabilisation––––Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone malignancy, and surgical resection combined with neoadjuvant chemotherapy is the gold-standard treatment for affected patients. Although the over…
Other EP
Tsukamoto et al · Curr Oncol
2021ReviewHuman–102–other · intravenous–The number of patients with bone metastasis increases as medical management and surgery improve the overall survival of patients with cancer. Bone metastasis can cause skeletal complications…
IRE
Sundararajan et al · JCPCR
2019ReviewLiterature AnalysisIrreversible Pore Formation and Cell Death, Reversible Membrane Permeabilisation15 / 137–bleomycin · intravenous–Volume 10 Issue 5 - 2019 Sarcomas are cancers that occur in soft tissues and bones that mostly affect teenagers and young adults. Although its occurrence is rare, the affect is huge-metastat…
IRE
Vailas et al · J BUON
2019ReviewHumanIrreversible Pore Formation and Cell Death, Reversible Membrane Permeabilisation––––Sarcomas arise from uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of mesodermal origins, such as connective tissue, bone, cartilage, fat or muscle. Surgical resection is still considered the cornersto…
Other EP
Mavrogenis et al · Clin J Pain
2016ReviewHuman–––bleomycin · intravenous–Background: Metastatic disease is the most common malignancy of the bone. Prostate, breast, lung, kidney, and thyroid cancer account for 80% of skeletal metastases. Bone metastases are assoc…
ECT
Spugnini et al · Int J Biochem Cell Biol
2008ReviewAnimal (In Vivo)–––bleomycin · intratumoural–Local management of soft tissue sarcoma in humans generally involves multi-modality approaches whose cornerstones are surgery combined with radiation therapy. The usual radiation protocols a…
ECT
Deschamps et al · Eur Radiol Exp
2025Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Haemostasis and Bleeding Control, Apoptosis Induction–Cliniporator VITAEbleomycin · intravenous–Background: Electrochemotherapy (ECT) of vertebral metastasis is a new treatment option for metastasis that is not accessible to thermal ablation or radiotherapy. A numerical feasibility stu…
ECT
Kranjc et al · Radiol Oncol
2017Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Increased Intracellular Cisplatin Accumulation, Reversible Membrane Permeabilisation–Jouan GHT 1287cisplatin · intratumoural–Background: Cisplatin is used in cancer therapy, but its side effects and acquired resistance to cisplatin have led to the synthesis and evaluation of new platinum compounds. Recently, the s…
IRE
Tschon et al · Technol Cancer Res Treat
2016Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Reversible Membrane Permeabilisation, Irreversible Pore Formation and Cell Death––––Skeletal metastases are a common cause of severe morbidity, reduction in quality of life and often early mortality. Consequently, improvements in therapies are necessary. Electroporation use…
IRE
Tam et al · Radiology
2016Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Irreversible Pore Formation and Cell Death, Electric Field Distribution and Modelling–NanoKnife––Purpose To determine the effects of irreversible electroporation (IRE) on the neural tissues after ablation in the epidural space of the porcine spine. Materials and Methods The institutiona…
ECT
Cemazar et al · Radiol Oncol
2015Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Increased Intracellular Cisplatin Accumulation, Potentiation of Cytotoxic Drug Permeability–ELECTRO CELL B10cisplatin · intravenouscomplete response 4 count (11 animals)Background: Electrochemotherapy is a tumour ablation modality, based on electroporation of the cell membrane, allowing non-permeant anticancer drugs to enter the cell, thus augmenting their …
IRE
Song et al · Sci Rep
2015Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Irreversible Pore Formation and Cell Death, Reversible Membrane Permeabilisation––––Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is a novel ablation method that has been tested in humans with lung, prostate, kidney, liver, lymph node and presacral cancers. As a new non-thermal treatm…
ECT
Fini et al · Clin Exp Metastasis
2013Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Increased Intracellular Bleomycin Accumulation–Cliniporatorbleomycin · intravenoustumour volume change 75% (8 lesions)Bone metastases impair general health status, quality of life and survival of patients. Electrochemotherapy (ECT), which combines electroporation (EP) and the administration of anticancer dr…
Gene ET
Sedlar · BMC Cancer
2013Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Gene Electrotransfer (Plasmid DNA), Interleukin-12 Mediated Immune Stimulation–GT-01plasmid DNA · intratumouraltumour volume change 7.1 cm³ (14 animals)Background: Interleukin-12 (IL-12) based radiosensitization is an effective way of tumor treatment. Local cytokine production, without systemic shedding, might provide clinical benefit in ra…
Gene ET
Sedlar et al · Radiol Oncol
2012Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Gene Electrotransfer (Plasmid DNA), Interleukin-12 Mediated Immune Stimulation– / 232GT-01, Cliniporatorcisplatin · intratumouralcomplete response 2 count (12 animals)BACKGROUND.: Electrochemotherapy provides good local tumor control but requires adjuvant treatment for increased local response and action on distant metastasis. In relation to this, intramu…
IRE
Li et al · PLoS One
2012Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Irreversible Pore Formation and Cell Death, Reversible Membrane Permeabilisation–TP3032––Background: Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is a promising technique for the focal treatment of pathologic tissues, which involves placing minimally invasive electrodes within the targete…
ECT
Spugnini et al · J Transl Med
2011Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Increased Intracellular Cisplatin Accumulation–Chemipulse III portable electroporatorcisplatin · intratumourallocal recurrence 180 days (14 patients)Background: Cancer is one of the most difficult current health challenges, being responsible for millions of deaths yearly. Systemic chemotherapy is the most common therapeutic approach, and…
Other EP
Fini et al · J Bone Joint Surg Br
2010Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)––Cliniporatorbleomycin–Short intense electrical pulses transiently increase the permeability of the cell membrane, an effect known as electroporation. This can be combined with antiblastic drugs for ablation of tu…
Gene ET
Grosel et al · DNA Cell Biol
2006Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Gene Electrotransfer (Plasmid DNA), Increased Intracellular Cisplatin Accumulation–Jouan GHT 1287plasmid DNA · intratumoural–The aim of our study was to evaluate feasibility and therapeutic potential of electrogene therapy with p53 alone or combined with electrochemotherapy using cisplatin on two murine sarcomas w…
ECT
Spugnini et al · Cancer Chemother Pharmacol
2006Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Increased Intracellular Bleomycin Accumulation–Chemopulsebleomycin · intratumourallocal recurrence 12 months (19 patients)Feline soft tissue sarcomas are spontaneous, rapidly growing, and aggressive neoplasms that mimic their human counterpart. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and effic…
ECT
Kranjc et al · BMC Cancer
2005Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Increased Intracellular Bleomycin Accumulation, Potentiation of Cytotoxic Drug Permeability–Jouan GHT 1287bleomycin · intravenouslocal control 12.4%Background: Bleomycin is poorly permeant but potent cytotoxic and radiosensitizing drug. The aim of the study was to evaluate whether a physical drug delivery system - electroporation can in…
ECT
Isobe et al · Clin Orthop Relat Res
2004Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Potentiation of Cytotoxic Drug Permeability–CUY-21, CUY-21 electroporatorother · intravenouscomplete response 4 count (7 animals)Methotrexate plays a key role in adjuvant chemotherapy for treatment of osteosarcoma, but is used at a high dose because it can pass through a cell membrane only with difficulty. Therefore, …
ECT
Jaroszeski et al · Technol Cancer Res Treat
2002Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Increased Intracellular Bleomycin Accumulation, Reversible Membrane Permeabilisation–MedPulserbleomycin · intratumoural–Electrochemotherapy is the combined use of a chemotherapeutic agent and pulsed electric fields. Electrical treatment causes an increase in cell membrane permeability which allows the chemoth…
Other EP
A Horiuchi, T Nikaido, J Mitsushita, T Toki, I Konishi, S Fujii · International Journal of Cancer
2000Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Increased Intracellular Bleomycin Accumulation, Systemic / Abscopal Immune Response–Square Electroporator CUY-21bleomycin · intratumoural–Int. J. Cancer: 88, 640 – 644 (2000) © 2000 Wiley-Liss, Inc. Publication of the International Union Against Cancer ENHANCEMENT OF ANTITUMOR EFFECT OF BLEOMYCIN BY LOW-VOLTAGE IN VIVO ELECTRO…
ECT
M Hyacinthe, M Jaroszeski, V Dang, D Coppola, R Karl, R Gilbert · Cancer
1999Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Potentiation of Cytotoxic Drug Permeability, Increased Intracellular Bleomycin Accumulation–BTX T820, BTX 878-2a electrode, BTX 195-7460 switchbleomycin · intratumouralcomplete response 100% (12 lesions)Pulsed electric fields have been shown to increase the effectiveness of antineoplastic agents by temporarily increasing the permeability of cell membranes. This type of drug delivery is call…
ECT
Sersˇa et al · Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics
1997Animal StudyAnimal (In Vivo)Increased Intracellular Bleomycin Accumulation, Potentiation of Cytotoxic Drug Permeability–Jouan GHT 1287cisplatin · intravenouscomplete response 20 countElectrochemotherapy combines chemotherapy with electric pulses in order to potentiate anti-tumor effectiveness of chemotherapeutic drugs. Electrochemotherapy with drugs that normally do not …
ECT
Michel et al · Biotechnol Appl Biochem
2019In Vitro StudyCell CultureReversible Membrane Permeabilisation, Increased Intracellular Cisplatin Accumulation–BTX ECM830other–Primary cell cultures are challenging, but reliable model reflecting tumor response in vitro. The study was designed to examine if the increased electropermeabilization can overcame initial …
Other EP
Gill et al · Oncotarget
2018In Vitro StudyCell CultureIncreased Intracellular Cisplatin Accumulation–BTX electroporatorothercell viability 90%Background: Osteosarcoma accounts for roughly 60% of all malignant bone tumors in children and young adults. The five-year survival rate for localized tumors after surgery and chemotherapy i…
ECT
Cindrič et al · Cancers (Basel)
2022In Silico / ModellingComputational ModelElectric Field Distribution and Modelling, Reversible Membrane Permeabilisation––––Electroporation-based treatments such as electrochemotherapy and irreversible electroporation ablation have sparked interest with respect to their use in medicine. Treatment planning involve…
ECT
Cindrič et al · Technol Cancer Res Treat
2018In Silico / ModellingComputational ModelElectric Field Distribution and Modelling, Electrode Geometry and Placement– / 3––tumour volume change 99.68%Vertebral column is the most frequent site for bone metastases. It has been demonstrated in previous studies that bone metastases can be efficiently treated by electrochemotherapy. We develo…
ECT
Campana et al · Technol Cancer Res Treat
2018In Silico / ModellingHumanElectric Field Distribution and Modelling, Tissue Conductivity and Impedance Change–EPS02––Electrochemotherapy is an established treatment option for patients with superficially metastatic tumors, mainly malignant melanoma and breast cancer. Based on preliminary experiences, elect…
ECT
Ongaro et al · Technol Cancer Res Treat
2015In Silico / ModellingComputational ModelElectric Field Distribution and Modelling, Electrode Geometry and Placement––bleomycin–Electrochemotherapy (ECT) is a local anticancer treatment based on the combination of chemotherapy and short, tumor-permeabilizing, voltage pulses delivered using needle electrodes or plate …
ECT
Tosi et al · Med Biol Eng Comput
2016Experimental Biophysics StudyHumanTissue Conductivity and Impedance Change19 / 19Cliniporator––Tissue electrical conductivity is correlated with tissue characteristics. In this work, some soft tissue sarcomas (STS) excised from patients have been evaluated in terms of histological cha…
Calcium EP
Szewczyk · Oncotarget
2019Correction / Erratum–Calcium Electroporation and ATP Depletion––calcium chloride–[This corrects the article DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.24352.].

Limitations

Publication volume is not clinical efficacy or evidence quality. It describes how much literature exists in the area and of what kind; it does not indicate how strongly the treatment is supported, guideline endorsement or regulatory status.

Patient totals are not a count of unique patients. The same cohort may have been reported in more than one publication; the totals are not a meta-analysis.

How the corpus was assembled, the tier thresholds, the definition of a clinical publication and why methods are counted separately: Literature Map.