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Photodynamic Therapy Mediated by Fullerenes and their Derivatives
ISBN:
9780791860083
No. of Pages:
60
Publisher:
ASME Press
Publication date:
2013
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5 Anti-cancer PDT
Page Count:
8
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Published:2013
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Sperandio, FF, Gupta, A, Wang, M, Chandran, R, Sadasivam, M, Huang, Y, Chiang, LY, & Hamblin, MR. "Anti-cancer PDT." Photodynamic Therapy Mediated by Fullerenes and their Derivatives. Ed. Sperandio, FF, Gupta, A, Wang, M, Chandran, R, Sadasivam, M, Huang, Y, Chiang, LY, & Hamblin, MR. ASME Press, 2013.
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PDT may also be used as a non-invasive treatment for various types of tumors [117]. Actually, fullerene-mediated PDT performed with a long incubation time can kill multiple types of cancer cells including head and neck, breast and esophageal cancer that respond poorly to alternative cancer therapies [118].
5.1 Photodynamic therapy of cancer cells
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