Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 9, Issue 1, 1630001(2016)
Photonics immunotherapy — A novel strategy for cancer treatment
Photonics immunotherapy is a novel cancer treatment strategy that combines local phototherapy and immunotherapy. Phototherapy is a noninvasive or minimally invasive therapeutic strategy for local treatment of cancer, which can destroy tumor cells and release tumor antigens, inducing an in situ antitumor immune response. Immunotherapy, including the use of antibodies, vaccines, immunoadjuvants and cytokines, when combined with phototherapy, could bring a synergistic effect to stimulate a host immune response that effectuates a long-term antitumor immunity. This review will focus on the development of photonics immunotherapy and its systemic antitumor immunological effects.
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Feifan Zhou, Robert E. Nordquist, Wei R. Chen. Photonics immunotherapy — A novel strategy for cancer treatment[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2016, 9(1): 1630001
Received: Aug. 27, 2015
Accepted: Oct. 20, 2015
Published Online: Dec. 27, 2018
The Author Email: Chen Wei R. (wchen@uco.edu)