Photodynamic Therapy

A new treatment strategy designed at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center aims to deliver a one-two punch to airway tumors that threaten a patient’s ability to breathe — and a phase 2 clinical trial will evaluate how well it works.

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) may sound like something out of science fiction, but PDT is actually a highly targeted, minimally invasive way of treating many cancers.