Oral cancers, specifically oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), pose a significant global
health challenge, with high incidence and mortality rates. Conventional treatments such as …

Simple Summary The current devices and methods for dosimetry of personalized
photodynamic therapy of tumors have several disadvantages. For instance, they are unable …

Numerous studies focus on cancer therapy worldwide, and although many advances have
been recorded, the complexity of the disease dictates thinking out of the box to confront it …

Background: Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) has been proposed as an effective
alternative method for the adjunctive treatment of all classes of oral infections. The …

Interstitial photodynamic therapy (iPDT) with 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is a possible
alternative treatment for malignant brain tumors. Further evaluation is, however, required …

Background: Reactive oxygen species sustain tumorigenesis and cancer progression
through deregulated redox signalling which also sensitizes cancer cells to therapy …

The discovery of coherent laser light in 1960 shifted and expanded the biomedical
applications of radiation to the non-ionizing part of the electromagnetic spectrum. As in the …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a medical radio chemotherapeutic method that uses light,
photosensitizing agents, and oxygen to produce cytotoxic compounds, which eliminate …

Objective: The macroscopic singlet oxygen (MSO) model for quantifying the light-induced
singlet oxygen () always contain a set of nonlinear dynamic equations and therefore are …

Plasmonic photothermal and photodynamic therapy (PPTT and PDT, respectively) are two
cancer treatments that have the potential to be combined in a synergistic scheme. The aim of …