Clinical experience in the treatment of Central lung cancer by photodynamic therapy

Abstract

Due to the fact that malignant lung diseases occupy the first place in the structure of onco-pathology, the development and introduction into clinical practice of intraluminal endoscopic methods of treatment is relevant and promising. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has proved to be one of such methods. The use of this technique makes it possible in some cases to achieve significant regression in patients with central lung cancer (CLC). This article presents a clinical example of the treatment of a patient with cancer of the main right bronchus with complete obstruction of its lumen by tumor tissue. The result of the application of this method of treatment was the restoration of complete patency of the bronchial lumen after two sessions of PDT