Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an effective non-invasive treatment for epithelial pre-cancers, yet its efficacy in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is limited by the immunosuppressive microenvironment of SCC. Vitamin D (VitD) has emerged as a potential neoadjuvant to enhance photodynamic priming in several cancers, but its immunologic effects in SCC remain poorly defined. Here, we investigated how VitD pretreatment modulates local and systemic immune responses to aminolevulinic acid-based
Photodynamic priming with Vitamin D and ALA-based PDT induces intratumoral immune cell recruitment and signaling pathway activation in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
Alan Shen·Edward V. Maytin·Benjamin Kovacic·Sanjay Anand·Tayyaba Hasan·Jennifer Powers·C. Marcela Diaz-Montero·Cheng-En Cheng
