Application progresses of photodynamic and sonodynamic therapy for malignant gynecologic neoplasms / 中国医学影像技术

ABSTRACT

The incidence of gynecological malignant tumors is increasing year by year, posing serious threatens to women's health. Photoacoustic dynamic therapy includes photodynamic therapy and sonodynamic therapy, killing tumor cells by photosensitizer and sonosensitizer activated by light or ultrasound, have the advantages of non-invasion, precise targeting, little side effects and widely used in diagnosis and treatment of gynecological tumors. The progress of photoacoustic dynamic therapy and its application in cervical cancer, ovarian cancer and endometrial cancer were reviewed in this article.