Shafirstein, Gal
Bellnier, David A.
Oakley, Emily
Hamilton, Sasheen
Habitzruther, Michael
Tworek, Lawrence
Hutson, Alan
Spernyak, Joseph A.
Sexton, Sandra
Curtin, Leslie
Turowski, Steven G.
Arshad, Hassan
Henderson, Barbara
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (R01 CA193610, P30CA16056)
Article History
Received: 16 April 2018
Revised: 29 June 2018
Accepted: 5 July 2018
First Online: 24 October 2018
Ethics approval
: The data (in the supplementary material) was obtained from a clinical study that was approved by Roswell Park Institutional Review Board in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. All participants signed an approved consent form prior to taking part in that study. All procedures in the animal studies were carried out in accordance with a protocol approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.
: This work was supported in part by National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under award number R01CA193610 to Gal Shafirstein, PO1CA55791 to Sandra Gollnick, and by Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Support Grant P30CA16056. We thank the staff of the shared resources at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center for their technical assistance in performing these studies: Laboratory Animal Shared Resource and Translational Imaging Shared Resource.
: G.S., D.A.B., and E.O. are co-inventors in patent applications (owned by Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center) of a light dosimetry system for interstitial and thermal photodynamic therapy. G.S. and H.A. acknowledge research grant support from Concordia Laboratories, Inc. G.S. acknowledges a service on the advisory board for Concordia International Corp. and Pinnacle Biologics, Inc. The remaining authors declare no competing interests. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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