Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy
Volume 5, Issue 2 , Pages 127-133, June 2008

Treatment of skin cancer and pre-cancer using topical ALA-PDT—A single hospital experience☆

  • Xiu-Li Wang, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Shanghai Skin Diseases & STD Hospital, Shanghai 200050, PR China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Hong-Wei Wang

      Affiliations

    • Shanghai Skin Diseases & STD Hospital, Shanghai 200050, PR China
    • ,
  • Min-Xia Guo

      Affiliations

    • Shanghai Skin Diseases & STD Hospital, Shanghai 200050, PR China
    • ,
  • Shi-Zheng Xu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, University of Wuhan, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan, PR China

published online 01 July 2008.

Summary 

Our hospital (Shanghai Skin Diseases & STD Hospital) started to study 5-aminolevulinic acid-mediated photodynamic therapy (ALA-PDT) in 1996. So far, we have treated 76 cases of skin cancer and pre-cancer using topical ALA-PDT. They included squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), basal cell carcinoma (BCC), Bowen's disease (BD), mammary and extramammary Paget disease, actinic keratosis (AK) and erythroplasia of Queyrat. In this overview article, we would like to present several representative cases and discuss our experience.

Keywords: 5-Aminolevulinic acid-mediated photodynamic therapy (ALA-PDT), Skin cancer

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☆ Based on the work presented at the 1st EPPM conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24–27 March 2008.

PII: S1572-1000(08)00043-4

doi:10.1016/j.pdpdt.2008.05.003

Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy
Volume 5, Issue 2 , Pages 127-133, June 2008

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