Category: Photomedicine

  Colorectal cancer is a a major cause of death in many countries, and it’s one of the few cancers that can actually be prevented with screening. In

Personalized medicine, also called precision medicine, is an individualized approach to disease, one that takes into account each individual’s unique biology. Not surprisingly, because every cancer arises from

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) employs a photosensitizing agent that preferentially accumulates, at least to some degree, in malignant tissues and the tumor vasculature. The photosensitizer (PS) is then activated

Bremachlorin® is a second-generation photosensitizer that is currently undergoing careful scientific evaluation in the Netherlands.   The agent is known as Radachlorin® in Russia, where it is clinically approved

Photomedicine is a medical field pertaining to the therapeutic use of light (photo comes from the Greek word for “light”). Since its inception in the late 1800s, photomedicine has steadily

For the treatment of malignant tumors, photodynamic therapy (PDT) is sometimes more effective than conventional therapy and can work as well as surgery or radiation therapy in treating a wide range

Though photodynamic therapy (PDT) was discovered as an antimicrobial treatment as far back as 1903, it has been mostly used for the treatment of cancer and eye diseases. PDT’s