“…This light causes excitation of the photosensitizer, and in this excited state the sensitizer produces singlet oxygen, a cytotoxic form of oxygen, which eradicates tumor cells (Weishaupt et al, 1976). Tumor necrosis is a combined result of direct cell killing (Penning et al, 1994), occlusion of tumor blood vessels (Henderson et al, 1985), and an acute inflammatory reaction (Krosl et al, 1995). PDT has been used to treat many types of cancer, including colon, bladder, lung, esophageal, and head‐and‐neck cancers (Fromm et al, 1996; Nseyo and Lamm, 1996; Furuse et al, 1993; Savary et al, 1997).…”