Cancer has been one of the major threats to the lives of human beings for centuries.(1)
Current cancer therapies mainly include surgery, chemotherapies, and radiotherapies …

Surgery is the frontline treatment for a large number of cancers. The objective of these
excisional surgeries is the complete removal of the primary tumor with sufficient safety …

A class of near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) heptamethine cyanine dyes that are taken up
and accumulated specifically in cancer cells without chemical conjugation have recently …

Photothermal therapy (PTT) has recently attracted considerable attention owing to its
controllable treatment process, high tumour eradication efficiency and minimal side effects …

Theranostics is a concept that integrated imaging and therapy. As an emerging field, it
embraces multiple techniques to arrive at an individualized treatment purpose. Indocyanine …

We report a type of photosensitizer (PS)-loaded micelles integrating cyanine dye as
potential theranostic micelles for precise anatomical tumor localization via dual …

Photo-based diagnosis and treatment methods are gaining prominence due to increased
spatial imaging resolution, minimally invasive modalities involved as well as localized …

Indocyanine green (ICG) is a cyanine compound that displays fluorescent properties in the
near infrared region. This dye is employed for numerous indications but nowadays its major …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has shown a promising capability for cancer treatment with
minimal side effects. Indocyanine green (ICG), the only clinically approved near-infrared …

Indocyanine green (ICG) is capable of inducing a photothermal effect and the production of
cytotoxic reactive oxygen species for cancer therapy. However, the major challenge in …