Sentences with phrase «with photodynamic therapy»

For wet AMD, treatments aimed at stopping abnormal blood vessel growth include FDA - approved drugs called Lucentis, Eylea, Macugen and Visudyne used with Photodynamic Therapy or PDT.

A three - year randomized controlled clinical trial has found that two topical creams are effective in most primary, low - risk superficial BCC, comparing favorably with photodynamic therapy (PDT), as reported by investigators in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

Not exact matches

«But we still have a far way to go: To reliably use this type of photoswitchable molecules for a photodynamic therapy of patients, numerous other studies have to be carried out in cooperation with our partners in Kiev.»

In their report that has received advance online publication in Nature Nanotechnology, a research team based at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) describes how a nanomedicine that combines photodynamic therapy — the use of light to trigger a chemical reaction — with a molecular therapy drug targeted against common treatment resistance pathways reduced a thousand-fold the dosage of the molecular therapy drug required to suppress tumor progression and metastatic outgrowth in an animal model.

Its high reactivity has enabled its use in photodynamic therapy, in which light is used in combination with a photosensitizing drug to generate large amounts of singlet oxygen to kill cancer cells or various pathogens.

A new cancer - seeking compound that can trace a pancreatic tumor's outline with exceptional clarity, then attack cancer cells while leaving healthy tissues alone, is undergoing tests at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center's Photodynamic Therapy Center.

This is often how neurosurgeons actually identify tumour tissue for resection, as described from the study below and from use of the iKnife, which identifies malignant tissue and can be combined with a form of photodynamic therapy.

Read here about the healing power of sunlight (yes) and its relationship to cancer incidence, as well as about Photodynamic Therapy and the healing of cancer with UV light.

During photodynamic therapy, your veterinarian will inject your pet with a particular photosensitive agent and allow it to permeate his bloodstream.