Photodynamic therapy

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Photodynamic therapy

Postby Teleny » Tue Jan 28, 2014 10:47 pm

A rational way of poisoning tumours without risking killing the patient in the process..a fairly new technique which uses targeted chemotherapy, locally activated simply by beams of light. No side effects: you've just got to keep out of the sun for a bit.

Future Oncol. 2014 Jan;10(1):123-4.

Photodynamic therapy: oncologic horizons.
Allison RR.

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Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a light-based intervention with a long and successful clinical track record for both oncology and non-malignancies.

In cancer patients, a photosensitizing agent is intravenously, orally or topically applied and allowed time to preferentially accumulate in the tumor region. Light of the appropriate wavelength and intensity to activate the particular photosensitizer employed is then introduced to the tumor bed. The light energy will activate the photosensitizer, which in the presence of oxygen should allow for creation of the toxic photodynamic reaction generating reactive oxygen species. The photodynamic reaction creates a cascading series of events including initiation of apoptotic and necrotic pathways both in tumor and neovasculature, leading to permanent lesion destruction often with upregulation of the immune system. Cutaneous phototoxicity from unintentional sunlight exposure remains the most common morbidity from PDT.
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