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Application of photodynamic therapy in cancer: challenges and advancements

ZIXUAN WANG^1,#, HONGMEI PENG^2,#, WEI SHI^4,#, LU GAN¹, LIPING ZHONG¹, JIAN HE¹, LINLIN XIE¹, PAN WU¹, YONGXIANG ZHAO¹, ZHIMING DENG^3,*, HONGLIANG TANG⁴, YONG HUANG^1,3,*

1 National Center for International Research of Bio-Targeting Theranostics, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Bio-Targeting Theranostics, Collaborative Innovation Center for Targeting Tumor Diagnosis and Therapy, Guangxi Talent Highland of Bio-Targeting Theranostics, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, 530021, China
2 Scientific Research and Education Department, The First People’s Hospital of Changde City, Changde, 415000, China
3 The First People’s Hospital of Changde City, Changde, 415000, China
4 Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, 530001, China

* Address correspondence to: Zhiming Deng, ; Yong Huang,
# These authors contributed equally to this work