Application of Photofrin II as a specific radiosensitising agent in patients with bladder cancer—a report of two cases

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 686-689

  Schaffer, M ^a   Schaffer, P M ^a   Vogesser, M ^a   Ertl Wagner, B ^b   Rauch, J ^a   Oberneder, R ^a   Jori, G ^c   Hofstetter, A ^a   Duhmke E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOFRIN II; RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT; CISPLATIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADVANCED CANCER; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INHIBITION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG SELECTIVITY; IONIZING RADIATION; NAUSEA; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SOLID TUMOR; STANDARDIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIHEMATOPORPHYRIN ETHER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036768576     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b203732g     Document Type: Article

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