Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 3, Issue 4, 279(2010)

COMBINED EFFECTS OF SELECTIVE PHOTOTHERMAL THERAPY AND IMMUNOADJUVANT AGAINST STAGE IV BREAST CANCER

XIAOSONG LI1...2,3, TOMAS HODE4, MARIA C. GUERRA4, GABRIELA L. FERREL5, JOHN A. LUNN6, ORN ADALSTEINSSON7, ROBERT E. NORDQUIST4 and WEI R. CHEN3,* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Department of Oncology the First Affiliated Hospital of Chinese PLA General Hospital Beijing 100048, China
  • 2Department of Laser Medicine Chinese PLA General Hospital Beijing 100853, China
  • 3Department of Engineering and Physics University of Central Oklahoma 100 N. University Drive, Edmond Oklahoma 73034, USA
  • 4ImmunoPhotonics Inc., 1601 South Providence Road Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
  • 5Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins Av. Edgardo Rebagliati #490 — Jesus Maria, Lima, Peru
  • 68 Collins Ave., P. O. Box N-215 Nassau, The Bahamas
  • 7International Strategic Cancer Alliance 873 E. Baltimore Pike #333, Kennett Square Philadelphia 19348, USA
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    Metastasis to distant sites is a severe treatment challenge and a major cause of death for breast cancer patients. Laser immunotherapy (LIT) is a novel technique, combining a selective photothermal therapy with local application of glycated chitosan, a potent immunoadjuvant. The pre-clinical studies of LIT have shown its unique characteristics in generating specific antitumor immunity. The clinical application of LIT in the treatment of melanoma patients has achieved preliminary success. Recently, LIT has been used to treat late-stage breast cancer patients. Here we report for the first time the clinical results of this combination therapy in breast cancer patients. The LIT treatment procedures are presented and the medical history of two stage IV breast cancer patients is reviewed. Most of the breast cancer lesions and the metastasis of lung and brain disappeared after repeated treatments of LIT. One patient achieved complete 279 J. Innov response; the other achieved partial response at the time of this report. Although there is still a long way for LIT to become a standard modality for breast cancer treatment, the results of this study indicated its promising future.

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    XIAOSONG LI, TOMAS HODE, MARIA C. GUERRA, GABRIELA L. FERREL, JOHN A. LUNN, ORN ADALSTEINSSON, ROBERT E. NORDQUIST, WEI R. CHEN. COMBINED EFFECTS OF SELECTIVE PHOTOTHERMAL THERAPY AND IMMUNOADJUVANT AGAINST STAGE IV BREAST CANCER[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2010, 3(4): 279

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    Published Online: Jan. 10, 2019

    The Author Email: CHEN WEI R. (wchen@uco.edu)

    DOI:10.1142/s1793545810001179

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