Treatment of vulvar cancer recurrences with electrochemotherapy – a detailed analysis of possible causes for unsuccessful treatment

Abstract

Electrochemotherapy has good local effectiveness in the treatment of vulvar cancer. Most studies have reported the safety and effectiveness of electrochemotherapy for palliative treatment of gynecological cancers and mostly vulvar squamous cell carcinoma. Some tumors, however, fail to respond to electrochemotherapy. The biological features/determinants for the nonresponsiveness are not determined yet.

Keywords

• electrochemotherapy
• bleomycin
• vulvar cancer
• recurrence