Photodynamic therapy for gastrointestinal cancer care.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 10 Photodynamic therapy for gastrointestinal cancer care [Abstract] Objective: To evaluate photodynamic therapy (PDT) the effect of the treatment and nursing of digestive tract tumors. Methods: 20 patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer patients in the endoscopic photodynamic chemotherapy, photodynamic therapy prior to, during and after given the appropriate care. Results: After 3 to 6 courses of treatment and care, full effect in 1 case, significant effects in 14 cases, 4 cases of mild effect, and 1 case, the total effective rate was 95%. Conclusion: After careful nursing, PDT is a safe and effective method of treatment of cancer. [Keywords:] photodynamic therapy; gastrointestinal cancer; Care Photodynamic Therapy (Photodynamic therapy, PDT) is a late 20th century, began to form 70 to a new cancer treatment technology [1], now our hospital HeNe-500 type of laser treatment in 20 patients with gastrointestinal cancer clinical observation Nursing reported below. 1 Clinical data 1.1 study October 2007-July 2009, endoscopic and pathological diagnosis of esophageal cancer, 10 cases and 6 cases of colon cancer, 4 cases of 20 patients. One were 12 males and 8 females aged 45 to 76 years The average age of 55 years old .20 patients have received chemotherapy, and surgery or are unwilling to have lost the timing of surgical treatment of advanced cancer. 1.2 Instruments and reagents Photodynamic therapy apparatus: HeNe-500 laser therapy unit; photosensitizers: hematoporphyrin monomethyl ether injection. 1.3 Treatment Photosensitizer hematoporphyrin monomethyl ether by injection, dose 5 mg / kg, 5% glucose infusion 250 ~ 500 mL (depending on choice of treatment prescribed dose of tumor size, 200 ~ 300 J/cm2, 250 J/cm2 generally ), after administration 24 h, 48 h, 72 h or spotted with a columnar light fiber endoscope 3. Each spot light 20 ~ 30 min, every 2 or 3 spot light, and even 3 times as a course of treatment a