Photoradiation Therapy for the Treatment of Malignant Tumors

Cancer Research

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1978, Pages 2628-2635

  Dougherty, Thomas J ^a   Kaufman, Jerome E ^a   Goldfarb, Abraham ^a   Weishaupt, Kenneth R ^a   Boyle, Donn ^a   Mittleman, Arnold ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMATOPORPHYRIN;

CASE REPORT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHOTOTHERAPY; RED LIGHT; SKIN TUMOR; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SUBCUTANEOUS TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; FEMALE; HEMATOPORPHYRINS; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NOSE NEOPLASMS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0018098182     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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