Patent ID: 8500713

Claim:
A method for treating a cancerous tumor, comprising: implanting a wholly-implantable electroporation device wholly within a body, wherein said wholly-implantable electroporation device includes a drug reservoir and operative control circuitry both disposed within a housing for said wholly-implantable electroporation device; delivering a drug to the body and proximate the cancerous tumor via a fluid conduit coupled to the drug reservoir; delivering from the wholly-implantable electroporation device, at least one electrical pulse across at least a portion of the cancerous tumor, wherein said at least one electrical pulse produces an electrical field strength of from about 700 V/cm to about 1500 V/cm and said at least one electrical pulse has a pulse width of from about 50 microseconds to about 200 microseconds; and detecting a qRs complex from an electrocardiogram of the body and synchronizing the delivering of the at least one electrical pulse with the qRs complex.