Multiple brain metastases - current management and perspectives for treatment with electrochemotherapy
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Multiple brain metastases - current management and perspectives for treatment with electrochemotherapy
BACKGROUND Due to the advanced oncological treatments of cancer, an overall increase in cancer incidence, and better diagnostic tools, the incidence of brain metastases is on the rise. This review addresses the current treatment options for patients with multiple brain metastases, presenting electrochemotherapy (ECT) as one of the new experimental treatments for this group of patients. CONCLU...
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiology and Oncology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1581-3207,1318-2099
DOI: 10.2478/v10019-012-0042-y