Place of photodynamic therapy in cancer treatment: news on new photosensitizers

Laser therapy for the focal treatment of cancers, whether photodynamic therapy or photothermal therapy, is clinically authorised for certain types of cancer, notably for dermatological cancers. For other types of cancers, such as deep cancers, it is still at the stage of therapeutic innovation, i.e. it is not yet authorised as a cancer treatment but is in the clinical trial phase. This laser therapy is presented as a therapeutic strategy that greatly limits the undesirable side effects of conventional treatments and as a new approach for the many cases of recurrence or resistance to current chemotherapies.

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