Also: PDT, photosensitizer
A drug that is harmless until activated by light, then kills nearby tumour cells.
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Agostinis and colleagues reviewed PDT: a light-activated photosensitizer kills tumour cells, damages tumour vessels and triggers inflammation, and can be curative in early tumours.
As reported in: Agostinis, Berg, Cengel et al. (2011). Photodynamic therapy of cancer: An update. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. doi:10.3322/caac.20114
Dolmans, Fukumura and Jain reviewed photodynamic therapy for cancer.
As reported in: Dolmans, Fukumura, Jain (2003). Photodynamic therapy for cancer. Nature Reviews Cancer. doi:10.1038/nrc1071
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