title: Clinical effect of meso-tetrahydroxyphenylchlorine based photodynamic therapy in recurrent carcinoma of the ovary: preliminary results.
abstract: This article addresses the use of meso-tetrahydroxyphenylchlorin-based photodynamic therapy (m-THPC-PDT) to treat recurrent gynaecologic malignancies of the ovary. Photodynamic therapy is an experimental approach in the treatment of neoplasms and results indicate it is a highly tissue selective, relatively simple intervention with few side effects, therefore reducing the overall burden on the patient. Of the three patients involved in the initial study, two were treated solely with photodynamic therapy by laparoscopy, and one underwent additional palliative debulking surgery of metastatic tumours. After a post-operative period of more than two years all three women remained free of relapses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Rudolfstiftung Hospital, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wierrani
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fiedler
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Grin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Henry
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dienes
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gharehbaghi
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Krammer
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Grünberger
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000097:blood*; D018394:CA-125 Antigen / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008652:Mesoporphyrins / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010778:Photochemotherapy / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D018394:CA-125 Antigen; D008652:Mesoporphyrins; C072269:temoporfin