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    Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a form of phototherapy involving light and a photosensitizing chemical substance used in conjunction with molecular oxygen...
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    for cancer treatment – light box therapy and colored light therapy – are not supported by evidence. Photodynamic therapy (often with red light) is used...
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    Therapy (LEDT) encompasses two primary therapeutic approaches: photodynamic Therapy (PDT) and photobiomodulation Therapy (PBMT). Photodynamic therapy...
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  • Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT), also referred to as photodynamic inactivation (PDI), photodisinfection (PD), or photodynamic antimicrobial...
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  • and other diseased cells. Still, PUVA therapy is often classified as a separate technique from photodynamic therapy. Psoralens are materials that make the...
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  • medical conditions, including cancer. This approach is an extension of photodynamic therapy, in which a photosensitizer is excited with specific band light....
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    lesional tissue. Multiple treatment options for AK are available. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is one option for the treatment of numerous AK lesions in a...
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  • (GRNVAC1) and the other uses a lipidated oligonucleotide (GRN163L). Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is generally a non-invasive treatment using a combination of...
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    electrodesiccation and curettage, cryosurgery, topical chemotherapy, photodynamic therapy, laser surgery or the use of imiquimod, a topical immune-activating...
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  • Photorejuvenation is a skin treatment that uses lasers, intense pulsed light, or photodynamic therapy to treat skin conditions and remove effects of photoaging such as...
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  • nanoparticles (UCNP) based photodynamic therapy of prostate cancers: An in vitro study". Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy. 36: 102616. doi:10.1016/j...
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    that erythropoietin should be routinely given with radiotherapy. Photodynamic therapy may have promise for treating mucosal dysplasia and small head and...
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    and an aldehyde. Porphyrins have been evaluated in the context of photodynamic therapy (PDT) since they strongly absorb light, which is then converted to...
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    The available evidence suggests that half-dose (or half-fluence) photodynamic therapy is the treatment of choice for CSR with subretinal fluid for longer...
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    in photodynamic detection and surgery of cancer. As a precursor of a photosensitizer, 5ALA is also used as an add-on agent for photodynamic therapy. In...
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    Laser medicine (redirect from Laser therapy)
    use of lasers in medical diagnosis, treatments, or therapies, such as laser photodynamic therapy, photorejuvenation, and laser surgery. The word laser...
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  • Photodynamic/photothermal combination therapy involves the usage of a chemical compound or nanomaterial that, when irradiated at a certain wavelength...
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    inhibitors such as olaparib. Other therapies include hyperthermia, immunotherapy, photodynamic therapy, and stem-cell therapy. Most commonly cancer treatment...
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    ultrasound and molecular oxygen, it becomes toxic. Photodynamic therapy, from which sonodynamic therapy was derived, uses a similar mechanism. Instead of...
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    scattering from collimation upstream in the linear accelerator. In Photodynamic therapy (PDT) light is used to activate chemotherapy agents. Due to the nature...
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    region and photodynamic therapy can be used to improve quality of life and survival time in these un-resectable cases. Photodynamic therapy is a novel...
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  • She is credited for developing photodynamic therapy (PDT) with verteporfin (Visudyne), the first pharmacologic therapy for retinal disease. She also co-discovered...
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    organic molecules with uses in photocatalysis, photon upconversion and photodynamic therapy. Generally, photosensitizers absorb electromagnetic radiation consisting...
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    to the application of photooxygenation in organic synthesis and photodynamic therapy. Photooxygenation reactions are initiated by a photosensitizer, which...
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    protective goggles, or can be used to control noise in laser beams. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a method for treating cancer. In this technique, an organic...
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  • hypochromium therapy photodynamic therapy phototherapy photothermal therapy physical therapy physiotherapy phytotherapy platin therapy polychemotherapy polytherapy...
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  • Cytoluminescent Therapy is a proposed cancer treatment as a form of Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) characterized by a photosensitiser that is supposedly eliminated...
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    Dougherty successfully treated preclinical models of cancer using photodynamic therapy (PDT) techniques for the first time. In 1978, he conducted the first...
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    medication injected into the eye or, less commonly, laser coagulation or photodynamic therapy may slow worsening. Dietary antioxidant vitamins, minerals, and carotenoids...
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  • 1990  – China begins treating various cancers with photodynamic therapy 1991  – First gene therapy treatment of cancer (melanoma) 1992  – Invention of...
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