Publications by authors named "E Baltas"
Article Synopsis
- Electrochemotherapy (ECT) is gaining traction as an effective treatment for tumors in the head and neck, but there's limited data on its use for eyelid-periocular skin tumors, specifically basal cell carcinoma (BCC).
- This study reports on the long-term results of ECT treatments in 19 patients with eyelid-periocular BCC, adhering to European guidelines and using bleomycin as the primary drug.
- The study found a 100% overall response rate and a 95% complete response rate, with only 15.8% of patients experiencing recurrence during an average follow-up of 78.9 months, indicating ECT's effectiveness and safety for this type of cancer.
Background/aim: Targeted therapy and immunotherapy, with additional stereotactic radiation therapy (SRT) have revolutionized the management of metastatic malignant melanoma (mMM). We aimed to analyze the effectiveness and safety of SRT and determine its role in the complex management of mMM.
Patients And Methods: We treated 24 patients with solitary metastasis, 15 with oligometastatic disease and one with multiple metastases.
We hypothesise that regression may have an impact on the effectiveness of adjuvant IFN therapy, based on its role in the host immune response. Our purpose is to investigate regression and ulceration as prognostic factors in case of interferon-alpha (IFN)-treated melanoma patients. We followed 357 IFN-treated melanoma patients retrospectively, investigating progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) depending on the presence of ulceration and regression.
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