Successful electrochemotherapy treatment of a large bleeding lymph node melanoma metastasis

Our partner journal Melanoma Management has recently published a Case Report exploring electrochemotherapy for the treatment of lymph node melanoma compared with vemurafenib alone. Abstract Despite the progress in immunotherapy and targeted therapy for patients with cutaneous malignant melanoma not all patients with loco-regional recurrences will respond to treatment. Electrochemotherapy is a relatively new treatment modality where the efficacy of a chemotherapeutic drug is enhanced by an electrical field. Here we report a case of a 68-year-old woman with a large therapy resistant inguinal lymph node melanoma metastasis complicated by bleeding that was successfully treated with electrochemotherapy. Practice points Not...