Palliative treatments: Electrochemotherapy and thermoablation

In addition to local standard treatment for bone metastases, such as radiotherapy and surgery, new novel techniques have been developed in the past few years, including radiofrequency ablation and electrochemotherapy. Electrochemotherapy represents one of the newest and promising techniques for the early treatment of bone metastases; it has been largely used with effect on cutaneous tumors and early results on bone metastases are encouraging. Thermal ablation with radiofrequency allows for success rates that in some cases can be equal to those with standard surgical curettage, but with a low morbidity and complication rate.