Photodynamic therapy for pancreatic cancer: let's get serious

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 961-963

  Wolfsen, Herbert C ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; PHOTOFRIN; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; VASCULOTROPIN; VERTEPORFIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER THERAPY; CELL DEATH; COLON CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG RETENTION; DRUG UPTAKE; EDITORIAL; FLUORESCENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFLAMMATION; LASER; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESEARCH; SAFETY; THERAPY EFFECT; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PORPHYRINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 42649117517     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2007.11.012     Document Type: Editorial

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