Photodynamic therapy uses a non-thermal laser with a specified wave length to trigger a photo oxidative process in the patient. Two days before the laser is applied, the patient receives a phenetic phorphorin, a drug that collects in malignant tissues. The change in the breathing capacity of patients treated with either of these therapies is remarkable, he says. You have this heavy weight on your chest and a constant impending shortness of breath, just sitting in a chair, with no exercise. The therapies increase people's ability to enjoy life again.
Patients can visit the grandchildren or go to the zoo.
They can walk outside. They can do their own shopping, make their husband's breakfast, or help their wife around the house. They have their normal, everyday lives returned, and this means a lot to them.