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17 March 2023 Photodynamic approaches to alleviate desmoplasia: improving surgical and survival outcomes
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Abstract
Generally speaking, photodynamic therapy (PDT) for cancer has been viewed primarily as a therapeutic approach. In recent years, the integration of photodynamic therapy with secondary treatments has led to a deeper understanding of the sub-therapeutic photodynamic priming effects of PDT. In this work we show that stromal modulation by photodynamic priming of orthotopic head and neck tumors improved the tumor delivery and diagnostic accuracy of the clinical fluorescence image-guided surgery (IGS) probe Cetuximab-IRDye800CW (Cet-IRDye800) by 264.2%. We also explore the role of photodynamic priming in alleviating desmoplasia by reducing the density (>90%) and alignment (>10^3-fold) of collagen fibrillar networks in pancreatic tumors. In doing so, photodynamic priming using EGRF targeted multi-inhibitor liposomes containing irinotecan induced 90% tumor growth inhibition at only 8.1% of the patient equivalent dose of irinotecan, and double overall survival.
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Girgis Obaid, Chanda Bhandari, Shazia Bano, Kimberley Samkoe, Kenneth Hoyt, and Tayyaba Hasan "Photodynamic approaches to alleviate desmoplasia: improving surgical and survival outcomes", Proc. SPIE PC12359, Optical Methods for Tumor Treatment and Detection: Mechanisms and Techniques in Photodynamic Therapy XXXI, PC1235901 (17 March 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2644727
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KEYWORDS
Photodynamic therapy

Tumors

Cancer

Collagen

Diagnostics

Head

Image-guided intervention

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