Advances in Phototherapy and Sonodynamic Therapy, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Nanomaterial-mediated photo and sonodynamic therapeutic cancer treatments provide significant hope for enhancing patients’ quality of life. Phototherapy is a prominent non-invasive treatment modality in which nanomaterials absorb incident light and generate thermal heat (to mediate photothermal therapy—PTT) and cytotoxic reactive oxygen species (to mediate photodynamic therapy—PDT), allowing them to tackle tumors efficiently in both in vitro and in vivo models. Meanwhile, sonodynamic therapy (SDT) leverages sonosensitizers exposed to low-intensity ultrasound for tumor ablation.

Both of these therapeutic modalities have unique advantages, such as minimal invasiveness, spatiotemporal controllability, deep tissue penetration, a short recovery period, etc. Moreover, the flexibility of biomaterials allows phototherapy/SDT to be combined with other imaging tools (MRI, CT, fluorescence)/cancer treatments (chemo, radio, immuno, etc.) for synergistic therapeutic/theranostic effects, further improving therapeutic outcomes.

This Special Issue of Pharmaceutics will focus on the advances in nanomaterial-mediated photo/sonodymic approaches (including, but not limited to, phototherapy, photodynamic therapy, sonodynamic therapy, theranostic platforms) used to combat cancer. High-quality quality research papers, reviews, and are welcome.

We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Prof. Dr. Chia-Hao Su
Prof. Dr. Maria Nowakowska
Guest Editors

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• photothermal therapy
• photodynamic therapy
• sonodynamic therapy
• nanomaterials
• theranostics
• synrgestic therapy
• combination therapy