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Photochemotherapy

Known as: PDT, Therapies, Photodynamic, Therapy, Photodynamic 
Treatment with drugs that become active when exposed to light. These activated drugs may kill cancer cells.
National Institutes of Health

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PUVA Photochemotherapynewborn phototherapy

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Physical therapyTherapeutic procedureTherapeutic radiology procedure

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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
EVEREST STUDY: Efficacy and Safety of Verteporfin Photodynamic Therapy in Combination with Ranibizumab or Alone Versus Ranibizumab Monotherapy in Patients with Symptomatic Macular Polypoidal…
Purpose: To assess the effects of verteporfin photodynamic therapy (PDT) combined with ranibizumab or alone versus ranibizumab… 
Review
2008
Review
2008
Cancer cell killing via ROS: To increase or decrease, that is the question
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) act as a second messenger in cell signaling and are essential for various biological processes in… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Organically modified silica nanoparticles co-encapsulating photosensitizing drug and aggregation-enhanced two-photon absorbing fluorescent dye aggregates for two-photon photodynamic therapy.
We report energy-transferring organically modified silica nanoparticles for two-photon photodynamic therapy. These nanoparticles… 
Review
2004
Review
2004
Research advances in the use of tetrapyrrolic photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy.
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Verteporfin therapy of subfoveal choroidal neovascularization in age-related macular degeneration: two-year results of a randomized clinical trial including lesions with occult with no classic…
Review
2002
Review
2002
Hypericin in cancer treatment: more light on the way.
Review
2001
Review
2001
Photosensitized oxidation of membrane lipids: reaction pathways, cytotoxic effects, and cytoprotective mechanisms.
  • A. Girotti
  • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology. B…
  • 2001
  • Corpus ID: 5674458
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Photodynamic therapy of subfoveal choroidal neovascularization in pathologic myopia with verteporfin. 1-year results of a randomized clinical trial--VIP report no. 1.
OBJECTIVE To determine if photodynamic therapy with verteporfin (Visudyne; CIBA Vision Corp, Duluth, GA) can improve the chance… 
Review
1986
Review
1986
PHTHALOCYANINES AS PHOTOSENSITIZERS IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AND FOR THE PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY OF TUMORS
Several photosensitizing porphyrins are selectively retained in solid tumors and other rapidly growing tissues in humans and… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Tumor destruction and kinetics of tumor cell death in two experimental mouse tumors following photodynamic therapy.
The effect of photodynamic therapy (PDT) on tumor growth as well as on tumor cell survival in vitro and in vivo was studied in… 
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