Photodynamic therapy for prostate cancer—a review of current status and future promise

CM Moore, D Pendse, M Emberton - Nature clinical practice Urology, 2009 - nature.com
Debate is ongoing about the treatment of organ-confined prostate cancer, particularly in men
who have low-risk disease detected by PSA screening. A balance is needed between the …

Minimally-invasive technologies in uro-oncology: the role of cryotherapy, HIFU and photodynamic therapy in whole gland and focal therapy of localised prostate …

HU Ahmed, C Moore, M Emberton - Surgical oncology, 2009 - Elsevier
The use of minimally-invasive ablative therapies in localised prostate cancer offer potential
for a middle ground between active surveillance and radical therapy. This article reviews the …

siRNA‐mediated knockdown of the heme synthesis and degradation pathways: modulation of treatment effect of 5‐aminolevulinic acid‐based photodynamic therapy …

M Miyake, M Ishii, K Kawashima… - Photochemistry and …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Photodynamic therapy mediated by 5‐aminolevulinic acid (ALA‐PDT) has been developed
as a therapeutic modality for refractory superficial bladder cancers. Here, in experiments …

Preventing bladder tumor implantation with photodynamic therapy in a rat model mimicking post-fluorescence guided transurethral resection

S Berrahmoune, L Bezdetnaya, A Leroux… - The Journal of …, 2009 - auajournals.org
Purpose: Fluorescence guided transurethral resection has gained acknowledgment from the
urological community and it is progressively becoming more applied. It has been shown to …

Bladder cancer therapy related histopathologic changes

Z Marušlic, D Zhang, B Krušlin - The Open pathology journal, 2009 - benthamopen.com
Various forms of modern therapy of urinary bladder cancer are associated with characteristic
changes. Surgical therapy related morphology alterations usually do not present significant …

[PDF][PDF] Photosensitizing effects of chlorin e6-Polyvinylpyrrolidone for fluorescence guided photodynamic therapy of cancer

WCWEI LIM - 2009 - core.ac.uk
Title page Thesis Page 1 PHOTOSENSITIZING EFFECTS CHLORIN E6 –
POLYVINYLPYRROLIDONE FOR FLUORESCENCE GUIDED PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY OF …

Focal Therapy Will Be the Future Treatment Modality: The Motion “Con”

E Wehbi, M Musquera, A Alcaraz, S Hanna… - european urology …, 2009 - Elsevier
This is a special edition publication examining the merits and disadvantages of focal therapy
to treat prostate cancer. Although several publications have already dealt with this topic …

Prevention of bladder tumor implantion after fluorescence-guided TUR with photodynamic therapy

S Berrahmoune, L Bezdetnaya… - … Therapy: Back to …, 2009 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The prevalence of bladder cancer is very high, due to its high recurrence rate in superficial
bladder cancer (30 to 85%), which is the staging of approximately 80% of the patients at first …

[PDF][PDF] The use of gold nanostructures in the imaging and therapy of cancer

J KAH CHEN YONG - 2009 - core.ac.uk
The survival of cancer patients is related to different stages of malignancy detected. Early
detection of malignant lesions is not only crucial to the clinical outcome of treatment, but also …