Combined Therapy for Squamous Carcinoma Cells: Application of Porphyrin-Alkaloid Modified Gold Nanoparticles

Abstract

New contemporary strategy is written that combines favorable features of gold nanoparticles mediating the phototermal effect with a photosensiting compound mediating the photodynamic effect into one combined modality and thus introduce a therapeutic protocol efficient against squamous cell carcinoma.

Keywords

• combined therapy
• squamous cell carcinoma
• gold nanoparticles
• photosensitiser