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Photodynamic Therapy for Esophageal cancer
Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 1990 In photodynamic therapy, a photosensitizing drug is injected and then activated by light in the red spectral region to produce reactive, highly toxic singlet oxygen, which causes cell tissue and damage.
R Lambert
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The Current Status of Photodynamic Therapy in Cancer Treatment
Cancers, 2023 Simple Summary Photodynamic therapy (PDT), a non-invasive cancer treatment strategy, has presented a broad scope in future clinical applications.
Wenqi Jiang +4 more
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Photodynamic therapy: Innovative approaches for antibacterial and anticancer treatments
Medicinal research reviews (Print), 2023 Photodynamic therapy is an alternative treatment mainly for cancer but also for bacterial infections. This treatment dates back to 1900 when a German medical school graduate Oscar Raab found a photodynamic effect while doing research for his doctoral ...
Markéta Kolaříková +7 more
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Recent advances in nanomedicines for photodynamic therapy (PDT)-driven cancer immunotherapy
Theranostics, 2022 Cancer immunotherapy has made tremendous clinical progress in advanced-stage malignancies. However, patients with various tumors exhibit a low response rate to immunotherapy because of a powerful immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) and ...
Bin Ji, Minjie Wei, Bin Yang
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Photodynamic Therapy Review: Principles, Photosensitizers, Applications, and Future Directions
Pharmaceutics, 2021 Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a minimally invasive therapeutic modality that has gained great attention in the past years as a new therapy for cancer treatment.
J. Correia +4 more
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Photodynamic Therapy—Current Limitations and Novel Approaches
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 Photodynamic therapy (PDT) mostly relies on the generation of singlet oxygen, via the excitation of a photosensitizer, so that target tumor cells can be destroyed. PDT can be applied in the settings of several malignant diseases.
G. Gunaydin, M. E. Gedik, Seylan Ayan
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Targeting immunogenic cancer cell death by photodynamic therapy: past, present and future
Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, 2021 The past decade has witnessed major breakthroughs in cancer immunotherapy. This development has been largely motivated by cancer cell evasion of immunological control and consequent tumor resistance to conventional therapies. Immunogenic cell death (ICD)
Razan Alzeibak +5 more
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Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been used as an anti-tumor treatment method for a long time and photosensitizers (PS) can be used in various types of tumors.
G. Gunaydin, M. E. Gedik, Seylan Ayan
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Nature Communications, 2022 The most common working mechanism of photodynamic therapy is based on high-toxicity singlet oxygen, which is called Type II photodynamic therapy. But it is highly dependent on oxygen consumption.
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Photodynamic Therapy for Treatment of Disease in Children—A Review of the Literature
Children, 2022 Photodynamic therapy is a mode of treatment whereby local irradiation of an administered photosensitizer with light of a specific wavelength generates cytotoxic reactive oxygen species. Despite the upward trend in the popularity of this method in adults,
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