Effect of Photodynamic Therapy on Selected Laboratory Values of Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

Abstract

We determined pre- and post-photodynamic therapy (PDT) serum levels of soluble interleukin-2 receptor (SIL-2R) and interleukin-2 (IL-2), as well as activity of natural killer (NK) cells, among 24 patients with either persistent or recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), using a double-antibody sandwich technique, tritiated thymidine-deoxyribonucleoside incorporation, and iodine 125-uridine-deoxyribonucleoside release techniques, respectively. The results showed that the post-PDT serum level of SIL-2R had significantly declined (p < .0005), while that of IL-2 and the NK cell activity had significantly increased (p < .0005), compared with pre-PDT values, suggesting an immunoenhancing effect of PDT on NPC patients.

Keywords

interleukin-2 laser photodynamic therapy natural killer cell soluble interleukin-2 receptor

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