Photodynamic immunotherapy of cancers based on nanotechnology: recent advances and future challenges

Z Liu, Z Xie, W Li, X Wu, X Jiang, G Li, L Cao… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a non-invasive or minimally-invasive treatment which
applies photosensitizers (PSs) to create reactive oxygen species (ROS) exposed to light …

Photodynamic therapy enhancement of anti-tumor immunity

CM Brackett, SO Gollnick - Photochemical & photobiological sciences, 2011 - Springer
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an FDA-approved modality for the treatment of early-stage
disease and palliation of late-stage disease. Pre-clinical studies using mouse models and …

Photodynamic therapy: illuminating the road from cell death towards anti-tumour immunity

AD Garg, D Nowis, J Golab, P Agostinis - Apoptosis, 2010 - Springer
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) utilizes the destructive power of reactive oxygen species
generated via visible light irradiation of a photosensitive dye accumulated in the cancerous …

Photothermally activatable PDA immune nanomedicine combined with PD-L1 checkpoint blockade for antimetastatic cancer photoimmunotherapy

Q Lu, S Qi, P Li, L Yang, S Yang, Y Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Photothermal therapy (PTT) has shown promising potential and bright prospects in
damaging primary tumors; however, it is limited to metastatic and recrudescent tumors as …

Stimulation of anti-tumor immunity by photodynamic therapy

P Mroz, JT Hashmi, YY Huang, N Lange… - Expert review of …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a rapidly developing cancer treatment that utilizes the
combination of nontoxic dyes and harmless visible light to destroy tumors by generating …

The role of photodynamic therapy in triggering cell death and facilitating antitumor immunology

L Tan, X Shen, Z He, Y Lu - Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cancer is a major threat to human health because of its high mortality, easy recurrence,
strong invasion, and metastasis. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a promising minimally …

Trial watch: an update of clinical advances in photodynamic therapy and its immunoadjuvant properties for cancer treatment

M Penetra, LG Arnaut, LC Gomes-da-Silva - 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a medical treatment used to target solid tumors, where the
administration of a photosensitizing agent and light generate reactive oxygen species …

Hypoxia-triggered transforming immunomodulator for cancer immunotherapy via photodynamically enhanced antigen presentation of dendritic cell

S Im, J Lee, D Park, A Park, YM Kim, WJ Kim - ACS nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
A key factor for successful cancer immunotherapy (CIT) is the extent of antigen presentation
by dendritic cells (DCs) that phagocytize tumor-associated antigens (TAA) in the tumor site …

Amplifying “eat me signal” by immunogenic cell death for potentiating cancer immunotherapy

Y Xi, L Chen, J Tang, B Yu, W Shen… - Immunological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Immunogenic cell death (ICD) is a unique mode of cell death, which can release
immunogenic damage‐associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) and tumor‐associated …

[HTML][HTML] How to improve photodynamic therapy-induced antitumor immunity for cancer treatment?

M Zhang, Y Zhao, H Ma, Y Sun, J Cao - Theranostics, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a promising method of tumor ablation and function-
preserving oncological intervention, which is minimally invasive, repeatable, and has …