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Pain in photodynamic therapy [PDF]

Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences, 2016
Photodynamic therapy is a modern treatment with applications in several medical specialties, which has been intensely studied in the last years. The main indications in dermatology are actinic keratosis, superficial basal cell carcinoma and Bowen's ...
Mircea Tampa, Maria Isabela Sârbu, Mădălina-Irina Mitran, Cristina-Iulia Mitran, Adrian Dumitru, Vasile Benea, Simona-Roxana Georgescu   +6 more
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Photodynamic Therapy

Biomedicines, 2022
In 1903, Von Tappeiner and Jesionek [...]
Kyungsu Kang, Stefano Bacci
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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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Photodynamic Therapy in Combination with Doxorubicin Is Superior to Monotherapy for the Treatment of Lung Cancer

Biomedicines, 2022
We have previously shown that a radioactive (123I)-analog of methyl 3-(1′-(iodobexyloxy) ethyl-3-devinylpyropheophorbide-a (PET-ONCO), derived from chlorophyll-a can be used for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of a variety of tumors, including
Joseph C. Cacaccio, Farukh A. Durrani, Joseph R. Missert, Ravindra K. Pandey   +3 more
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First-In-Human Computer-Optimized Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Interstitial Photodynamic Therapy for Patients With Extrabronchial or Endobronchial Obstructing Malignancies

JTO Clinical and Research Reports, 2022
Objective: Patients with inoperable extrabronchial or endobronchial tumors who are not candidates for curative radiotherapy have dire prognoses with no effective long-term treatment options. To reveal that our computer-optimized interstitial photodynamic
Nathaniel M. Ivanick, MD, Emily R. Oakley, PhD, Rajesh Kunadharaju, MD, Craig Brackett, PhD, David A. Bellnier, PhD, Lawrence M. Tworek, BS, Sergei N. Kurenov, MS, Sandra O. Gollnick, PhD, Alan D. Hutson, PhD, Theresa M. Busch, PhD, Gal Shafirstein, DSc   +10 more
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A Remarkable Difference in Pharmacokinetics of Fluorinated Versus Iodinated Photosensitizers Derived from Chlorophyll-a and a Direct Correlation between the Tumor Uptake and Anti-Cancer Activity

Molecules, 2023
To investigate and compare the pharmacokinetic profile and anti-cancer activity of fluorinated and iodinated photosensitizers (PSs), the 3-(1′-(o-fluorobenzyloxy)ethyl pyropheophorbide and the corresponding meta-(m-) and para (p-) fluorinated analogs ...
Taur Prakash Pandurang, Joseph Cacaccio, Farukh A. Durrani, Mykhaylo Dukh, Ajyal Z. Alsaleh, Munawwar Sajjad, Francis D’Souza, Dalip Kumar, Ravindra K. Pandey   +8 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, B. Hošíková, Hanna Dilenko, Katerina Barton-Tomankova, L. Válková, R. Bajgar, L. Malina, H. Kolářová   +7 more
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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, J. Rodrigues, S. Pimenta, T. Dong, Zhaochu Yang   +4 more
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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, Mingkang Liang, Qifang Lei, Guangzhi Li, Song Wu   +4 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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