Photodynamic therapy and cancer

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 339, Issue 7715, 2009, Pages 251-

  Brown, Stanley B ^a   Ibbotson, Sally H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID METHYL ESTER; OXYGEN; PHOTOFRIN; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; TEMOPORFIN;

BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSPLASIA; EDITORIAL; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIGHT; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; NEOPLASM; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SKIN CANCER; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY;

EID: 68149142750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b2459     Document Type: Editorial

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