Treatment and use of optical laser light to kill cancer cells. Food and
drug approved its use is not lung cancer and cancer of the esophagus.
Nevertheless, the treatment in the early phase of the optical pilot as
a potential treatment of mesothelioma.
As the optical processing
The patient receives an agent or photosensitizer Photosensitizing, cancer drugs that are weak and sensitive to light of specific wavelengths. Photosensitizer to accumulate in tumor cells. Depending on the type, photosensitizer, or collected in healthy cells, and these cells faster than the cancer cells.
Once the cancer cells to know, and fiber-optic cables should be located in the body (usually through open heart surgery) to focus the light at the correct frequency for the tumor. This has led to interact with the photosensitizer molecules of oxygen, toxic to kill cancer cells.
Mesothelioma clinical research, photo dynamic therapy
Optical treatment was used on an experimental basis for the operation to help prevent cancer and mesothelioma in the lining of the lungs and pleura. In the analytical study of 26 patients, and treatment is one of the optical combination of these two types of processes and pleurectomy or extrapleural pneumonectomy (Ann Thorac Surg. March 2003, 75 (3): 952-9). A pleurectomy is the removal of the lining of the lungs and pleura. The most complete extrapleural pneumonectomy is the removal of the lungs and pleura. Photosensitizer was Foscan (metadata tetrahydroxyphenylchlorin, mTHPC).
In clinical trials requires a safe dose and to determine the effects of Foscan. These are the wounds of the skin and sensitivity to light some time after treatment. Further research is needed before a conclusion that Foscan photo dynamic therapy is useful and safe for treatment of mesothelioma.
Researchers noted that the use of light therapy can help some patients in the lung - to avoid pleurectomy instead of invasive extrapleural pneumonectomy. At the present time, other studies on the interaction between surgery and treatment with the use of optical photosensitizer porfimer sodium, commonly used drug treatment in the form of a dynamic non-small cell lung cancer, which affect the city.
As the optical processing
The patient receives an agent or photosensitizer Photosensitizing, cancer drugs that are weak and sensitive to light of specific wavelengths. Photosensitizer to accumulate in tumor cells. Depending on the type, photosensitizer, or collected in healthy cells, and these cells faster than the cancer cells.
Once the cancer cells to know, and fiber-optic cables should be located in the body (usually through open heart surgery) to focus the light at the correct frequency for the tumor. This has led to interact with the photosensitizer molecules of oxygen, toxic to kill cancer cells.
Mesothelioma clinical research, photo dynamic therapy
Optical treatment was used on an experimental basis for the operation to help prevent cancer and mesothelioma in the lining of the lungs and pleura. In the analytical study of 26 patients, and treatment is one of the optical combination of these two types of processes and pleurectomy or extrapleural pneumonectomy (Ann Thorac Surg. March 2003, 75 (3): 952-9). A pleurectomy is the removal of the lining of the lungs and pleura. The most complete extrapleural pneumonectomy is the removal of the lungs and pleura. Photosensitizer was Foscan (metadata tetrahydroxyphenylchlorin, mTHPC).
In clinical trials requires a safe dose and to determine the effects of Foscan. These are the wounds of the skin and sensitivity to light some time after treatment. Further research is needed before a conclusion that Foscan photo dynamic therapy is useful and safe for treatment of mesothelioma.
Researchers noted that the use of light therapy can help some patients in the lung - to avoid pleurectomy instead of invasive extrapleural pneumonectomy. At the present time, other studies on the interaction between surgery and treatment with the use of optical photosensitizer porfimer sodium, commonly used drug treatment in the form of a dynamic non-small cell lung cancer, which affect the city.
