Photodynamic Therapy Applications in Cancer, Infections and Cardiovascular Disease
Meden F Isaac-Lam,
Thach Nguyen
Abstract:Photodynamic therapy (PDT) or light treatment is a procedure to treat certain types of diseases that uses a photosensitizer (PS) which upon light activation produces cytotoxic oxygen species destroying tumor cells. PDT is minimally-invasive and can be repeated a few times without accumulating significant toxicity in the surrounding tissues. While PDT application in cancer treatment is well established and widely recognized by the scientific community, and its use in the fight against microbial infection is gai… Show more
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