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1 Photodynamic diagnosis; PDT PDT Porfimer sodium PDT Talaporfin sodium PDT 2 Talaporfin sodium PDT Porfimer sodium PDT Talaporfin sodium PDT PDT PDT PDT PDT 23

2 Porfimer sodium Talaporfin sodium mthpc temoporfinfoscan Talaporfin sodium 0.15 mg/kg nm Photodynamic dosedrug dose x light dose Porfimer sodium 100 PDT European Union NorwayIceland FDA 2 5-ALA Protoporphyrin IX PDD Porfimer sodium PDT 1 Talaporfin sodium PDT PD 2 low grade dysplasia high grade dysplasia 2003 FDA high grade dysplasia Porfimer sodium PDT PDT PDT Porfimer sodium ALA Porfimer sodium PDT 14 ALA ALA 2 mm Lightdate 236 Porfimer sodium PDT Hd:YAG laser III 3 4 PDT 32 % Nd:YAG 20 % PDT Nd:YAG 7 % Porfimer sodium PDT 1 % Nd:YAG PDT Luketich 77 PDT % 6 PDT 4 CRT 10 % 40 % 24

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4 PDT PDT % %3 45 % 7 Porfimer sodium PDT Talaporfin sodium : PD Talaporfin sodium PDT 8 CRT Talaporfin sodium PDT I 9 II UMIN I Talaporfin sodium PDT 100 J/cm 2 CRT Talaporfin sodium PDT % PDT Kahaleh PDT 7.4 PDT 16.2 p < Quyn n = %n = % PDT n = %

5 173 PDT 512 PDT 11 gemcitabine oxaliplatin 2 Talaporfin sodium PDT apoptosis necrosis 12 PDT TCA ATP Warburg 13 PET 14 Talaporfin sodium in vivo PDT Talaporfin sodium 15 M) M) 27

6 M] delivery PDT PDT Mitsunaga EGF HER2 IR nm Photoimunotherapy: PIT 16 PDT EGR HER2 Drug Delivery System DDS DDS 17 enhanced permeability and retention EPR 18 EPR 19 PDT PDT PDT photonics DDS : 28

7 1D. J. Ball, D. I. Vernon, S. B. G. Brown, research Note: The high photoactivity of m-thpc in photodynamic therapy. Unusually strong retention of m-thpc by RIF-1 cells in culture. Photochem. Photobiol. 1999, 69, Yano S, Hirohara S, Obata M, Hagiya Y, Ogura S, Ikeda A, Kataoka H, Tanaka M, Joh T. Current states and future views in photodynamic therapy. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews. 2011, 12 (1), C.J. Lightdale, S.K. Heier, N.E. Marcon, J.S. McCaughan Jr., H. Gerdes, B.F. Overholt,M.V. Sivak Jr., G.V. Stiegmann, H.R. Nava, Photodynamic therapy with porfimer sodium versus thermal ablation therapy with Nd:YAG laser for palliation of esophageal cancer: a multicenter randomized trial. Gastrointest Endosc. 1995, 42, J.D. Luketich, N.A. Christie, P.O. Buenaventura, T.L. Weigel, R.J. Keenan, N.T. Nguyen, Endoscopic photodynamic therapy for obstructing esophageal cancer: 77 cases over a 2-year period. Surg. Endosc. 2000, 14, 653?657. 5Yano T, Muto M, Minashi K, et al. Photodynamic therapy as salvage treatment for local failures after definitive chemoradiotherapy for esophageal cancer. Gastrointest Endosc. 2005, 62 (1), Yano T, Muto M, Minashi K, et al. Long-term results of salvage photodynamic therapy for patients with local failure after chemoradiotherapy for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Endoscopy. 2011, 43 (8), Yano T, Muto M, Minashi K, et al. Photodynamic therapy as salvage treatment for local failure after chemoradiotherapy in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: A phase II study. Int J Cancer Oct 25. doi: /ijc [Epub ahead of print] 8Horimatsu T, Muto M, Yoda Y, Yano T, Ezoe Y, Miyamoto S, Chiba T. Tissue damage in the canine normal esophagus by photoactivation with talaporfin sodium laserphyrin: a preclinical study. PLoS One. 2012; 7 (6): e Yano T, Muto M, Yoshimura K, Niimi M, Ezoe Y, Yoda Y, Yamamoto Y, Nishisaki H, Higashino K, Iishi H. Phase I study of photodynamic therapy using talaporfin sodium and diode laser for local failure after chemoradiotherapy for esophageal cancer. Radiat Oncol. 2012, 23 (7), Kahaleh M, Mishra R, Shami VM, Northup PG, Berg CL, Bashlor P, Jones P, Ellen K, Weiss GR, Brenin CM, Kurth BE, Rich TA, Adams RB, Yeaton P. Unresectable cholangiocarcinoma: comparison of survival in biliary stenting alone versus stenting with photodynamic therapy, Clin. Gastroenterol. Hepatol. 2008, 6, Quyn AJ, Ziyaie D, Polignano FM, Tait IS. Photodynamic therapy is associated with an improvement in survival in patients with irresectable hilar cholangiocarcinoma. H. P. B. Oxford. 2009, 11, Nonaka Y, Nanashima A, Nonaka T, Uehara M, Isomoto H, Abo T, Nagayasu T. Synergic effect of photodynamic therapy using talaporfin sodium with conventional anticancer chemotherapy for the treatment of bile duct carcinoma. J Surg Res Jul 13. [Epub ahead of print]. 13O. Warburg, On the origin of cancer cells, Science, 1956, 123, Hirohara S, Obata M, Alitomo H, Sharyo K, Ando T, Yano S, Tanihara M. Synthesis and photocytotoxicity of S-glucosylated 5,10,15,20-Tetrakis tetrafluorophenylporphyrin metal complexes as efficient 1O2-generating glycoconjugates. Bioconjug Chem. 2009, 20; 20 (5), Tanaka M, Kataoka H, Mabuchi M, Sakuma S, Takahashi S, Tujii R, Akashi H, Ohi H, Yano S, Morita A, Joh T. Anticancer effects of novel photodynamic therapy with glycoconjugated chlorin for gastric and colon cancer. Anticancer Res. 2011, 31 (3), Mitsunaga M, Ogawa M, Kosaka N, Rosenblum LT, Choyke PL, Kobayashi H. Cancer cell-selective in vivo near infrared photoimmunotherapy targeting specific membrane molecules. Nat Med. 2011, 6; 17 (12), ,. DDS..2012, 30 (7), Matsumura Y, Maeda H. A new concept for macromolecular therapeutics in cancer chemotherapy: mechanism of tumoritropic accumulation of proteins and the antitumor agent smancs. Cancer Res., 1986, 46, Jin CS, Zheng G. Liposomal nanostructures for photosensitizer delivery. Lasers Surg Med. 2011, 43 (7),

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