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SUBMITTER: Pye H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5955430 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pye Hayley H Butt Mohammed Adil MA Funnell Laura L Reinert Halla W HW Puccio Ignazio I Rehman Khan Saif U SU Saouros Savvas S Marklew Jared S JS Stamati Ioanna I Qurashi Maryam M Haidry Rehan R Sehgal Vinay V Oukrif Dahmane D Gandy Michael M Whitaker Hayley C HC Rodriguez-Justo Manuel M Novelli Marco M Hamoudi Rifat R Yahioglu Gokhan G Deonarain Mahendra P MP Lovat Laurence B LB
Oncotarget 20180501 33
Early oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OA) and pre-neoplastic dysplasia may be treated with endoscopic resection and ablative techniques such as photodynamic therapy (PDT). Though effective, discrete areas of disease may be missed leading to recurrence. PDT further suffers from the side effects of off-target photosensitivity. A tumour specific and light targeted therapeutic agent with optimised pharmacokinetics could be used to destroy residual cancerous cells left behind after resection. A small mol ...[more]