Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Radionuclides transform chemotherapeutics into phototherapeutics for precise treatment of disseminated cancer

  • Nalinikanth Kotagiri,
  • Matthew L. Cooper,
  • Michael Rettig,
  • Christopher Egbulefu,
  • Julie Prior,
  • Grace Cui,
  • Partha Karmakar,
  • Mingzhou Zhou,
  • Xiaoxia Yang,
  • Gail Sudlow,
  • Lynne Marsala,
  • Chantiya Chanswangphuwana,
  • Lan Lu,
  • LeMoyne Habimana-Griffin,
  • Monica Shokeen,
  • Xinming Xu,
  • Katherine Weilbaecher,
  • Michael Tomasson,
  • Gregory Lanza,
  • John F. DiPersio,
  • Samuel Achilefu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02758-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Most of the systemic cancer therapies lack spatiotemporal control. Here, the authors show targeted activation of a light-sensitive drug by radiopharmaceuticals in disseminated cancer cells as potential in vivo treatment of metastatic diseases with reduced off-target toxicity.