15 feb 2011 - Electrochemotherapy on JAMA

A compelling editorial on electrochemotherapy ["Electric Pulses Help With Chemotherapy, May Open New Paths for Other Agents", Tracy Hampton, PhD. JAMA, February 9, 2011 - Vol 305, No. 6, 549-551] has been recently published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). JAMA is a prestigious medical and scientific journal well known by doctors worldwide.

The article outlines the physical and biological principles on which electrochemotherapy is based, emphasizes safety and selectivity of the treatment, quotes the excellent clinical results obtained in the last ten years, reports extensively on the First Electrochemotherapy International Users' Meeting held in Bologna (Italy) in November 2010 and anticipates future applications of the methodology in visceral tumors and metastasis currently being tested in clinical trials.

The article is an authoritative confirmation of the electrochemotherapy increasing adoption in clinical practice and of the scientific relevance of the work done by all the centers offering electrochemotherapy to cancer patients.