Activated cancer therapy using light and ultrasound - A case series of sonodynamic photodynamic therapy in 115 patients over a 4 year period

Current Drug Therapy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 179-193

  Kenyon, Julian Norman ^a   Fulle, Richard James ^a   Lewis, Thomas Joseph ^b  

^a Dove Clinic   (United Kingdom)

^b SonneMed LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Activated cancer therapy; Dove clinic; Metastatic cancer; Photodynamic therapy; Sonnelux 1; Sonnemed; Sonodynamic therapy; Ultrasound activated therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CHLOROPHYLL; DEXAMETHASONE; GOSERELIN; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; SONNELUX 1; TEMOZOLOMIDE; TRASTUZUMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER THERAPY; CASE STUDY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EPENDYMOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL TUMOR; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOMA; MESOTHELIOMA; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PERITONEUM CANCER; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SARCOMA; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 73449133755     PISSN: 15748855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157488509789055036     Document Type: Article

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