Dr. Loren Discusses Photodynamic Therapy as a Cancer Treatment Option in Phila. Inquirer
David Loren, MD, of Jefferson's Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, is featured in a Philadelphia Inquirer
article discussing the use of photodynamic therapy (PDT). Jefferson
offers this therapy as an option to more invasive treatments of cancer.
PDT utilizes the administration of a light-sensitive drug, which is
then exposed to a visible light beam, to destroy cancerous cells. This
treatment is FDA approved for palliation of esophageal cancer and for
other esophageal cancers which fail to respond to standard treatment.
It is also approved for obstructing bronchogenic carcinoma.
The article talks about Gloria Correa, a patient of Dr. Loren's, a
54-year-old woman who sought this type of therapy in the hopes of
removing a deadly tumor in her bile duct.
Read
more about Correa's fight to beat bile-duct cancer and the use of
photodynamic therapy at Jefferson in "Fighting cancer with light."
Publication: Philadelphia Inquirer
Published: 1/26/2010