Photodynamic therapy-generated vaccine for cancer therapy
โ Scribed by Mladen Korbelik; Jinghai Sun
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 421 KB
- Volume
- 55
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-7004
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## Abstract ## Background and Objective Endobronchial photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a minimally invasive technique for the palliation of major airway obstruction from lung cancer, and for the treatment of endobronchial microinvasive lung cancer. ## Study Design Results of reported clinical trial
Six patients with an early stage of gastrointestinal (GI) cancer (TINoMo, stage I) were successfully treated by photodynamic therapy (PDT) as follows: esophagus-1, stomach-2, rectum-3. The patients were photosensitized 72 hrs rior to treatment with pure venous infusion. Argon-pumped dye laser light