Photodynamic therapy for lung cancer - A review of 19 years' experience

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 96-99

  Kato, Harubumi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advanced lung cancer; Combination therapy with surgery; Cost effectiveness; Early stage lung cancer; Photodynamic therapy

Indexed keywords

PHOTOFRIN; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY;

EID: 0032006169     PISSN: 10111344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1011-1344(97)00128-0     Document Type: Article

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