Rationale of combined PDT and SDT modalities for treating cancer patients in terminal stage: The proper use of photosensitizer

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 317-319

  Huang, Zheng ^a   Moseley, Harry ^b   Bown, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; SONOFLORA 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; METASTASIS; PAIN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR REGRESSION; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; RATIONALIZATION; SALVAGE THERAPY; TERMINAL CARE; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 78649659797     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735410376634     Document Type: Short Survey

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