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Patients may receive an intravenous injection of a chemotherapy drug (bleomycin) and/or the tumour or wound itself may be injected with a chemotherapy drug (cisplatin) or calcium chloride. Other drug combinations may be used depending on the type, grade and stage of the tumour. Anti-cancer vaccines or other molecules (e.g. cytokines) can also be delivered with special probes.
Immediately, or a few minutes after injection of these drugs, electrical pulses are administered by electrodes using flat plates on the skin surface or needles placed into the tumour or wound bed (Image1). Typically, very short (millisecond or microsecond) pulses are used and each treatment may last from five minutes to 25 minutes depending on the size of the tumour or surgical wound and the area of the body. Contact between the patient and the electrodes is optimised using an electroconductive gel.
Pulses are generated safely for the operator and the patient using an electroporator certified for veterinary use (Onkodisruptor®) (Image 2). ECT requires brief sedation or general anaesthesia depending on the area treated for the duration of the treatment. Local anaesthetic and painkiller by injection and as tablets are used during the treatment and post-operatively although the procedure results in minimal discomfort.
There are many advantages to this approach for the management of the cancer patient:
There are many advantages to this approach for the management of the cancer patient:
Cancer Care – Find out more
To assist owners in understanding more about Cancer Care we have put together a range of information sheets to talk you through the some of the more common conditions seen and treated by our Specialists.
Linnaeus Veterinary Group Trading as
Willows Veterinary Centre and Referral Service Ltd
Highlands Road
Shirley
Solihull
B90 4NH
Registered address:
Friars Gate,
1011 Stratford Road,
Solihull
B90 4BN
Registered in England Wales 10790375
VAT Reg 195 092 877
Monday to Friday
8am – 7pm
Saturday
8am – 4pm
Outside of these hours we are open 24/7 365 days a year as an emergency service.
Saturday
Morning 9am – 12pm
Afternoons 2pm – 4pm
Outside of these hours we are open 24/7 365 days a year as an emergency service.