In our last Discoveries article, we introduced the idea that the way a cancer treatment kills or damages a tumor can result in a marshaling of the immune
We often hear about how the immune system is harmed by conventional treatments such as high-dose chemotherapy and radiotherapy. But few people realize that low-dose versions of these
Photodynamic Therapy, or PDT, is a powerful approach to cancer treatment that involves the use of light to trigger a chemical reaction in abnormal or mutated cells, ultimately
During treatment with photodynamic therapy, the photosensitizer accumulates more strongly in diseased than in normal tissues, and this helps explain PDT’s ability to selectively target tumors. The accumulation of the
Some photodynamic strategies are designed to strongly activate the immune system against cancer. These strategies may hold the key to the elimination of the metastases, clusters of malignant cells
Fluorescence-guided surgery, or FGS, is a photodynamically based surgical approach that exploits the principle of fluorescence during surgery. In FGS, different types of photosensitizers are used to illuminate
Mainstream cancer treatment focuses on eliminating the tumor or other visible signs of the disease, and in most cases this means using some combination of surgery, radiation, and
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