Photodynamic therapy for cancer of the pancreas

Photodynamic therapy for cancer of the pancreas.

BACKGROUND Few pancreatic cancers are suitable for surgery and few respond to chemoradiation. Photodynamic therapy produces local necrosis of tissue with light after prior administration of a photosensitising agent, and in experimental studies can be tolerated by the pancreas and surrounding normal tissue. AIMS To undertake a phase I study of photodynamic therapy for cancer of the pancreas. ...

Dosimetry in Photodynamic Therapy of the Pancreas

assessment of the effect of honey as a topical therapy for intra oral wound healing in rat.

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Cellular pathways of cancer treatment by photodynamic therapy

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Photodynamic therapy for anal cancer.

Invasive anal cancers are generally successfully treated by combined chemotherapy with radiation therapy (XRT). For those patients who locally fail this intervention many are salvaged by surgery which generally results in permanent colostomy. We examined the treatment and outcome of Photofrin based photodynamic therapy (PDT) in a cohort of patients with anal cancer who failed locally despite ch...