Editorial: Photodynamic therapy: challenges and innovations for treating cancer
Newton Soares da Silva, Juliana Ferreira-Strixino, Cristina Pacheco-Soares · 2024
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Description
Silva, Ferreira-Strixino, and Pacheco-Soares wrote an opening piece in twenty twenty-four for a set of studies on light-based cancer care. The treatment uses a drug that wakes up when light hits it, so it can kill cancer cells where the light shines. The piece sums up what the set of studies found.
Inside, the editors note gains when the light treatment is paired with chemo drugs or other tools. Some work links it to a type of cell death tied to iron. Other work tests it on throat and gut cancers that resist standard care. The piece also flags what is still not known, such as how the treatment stirs the body defences.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Newton Soares da Silva, Juliana Ferreira-Strixino, Cristina Pacheco-Soares |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 5 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |