ICAM’s Systemic Photodynamic Therapy and Sonodynamic Therapy

ICAM’s Systemic Photodynamic Therapy and Sonodynamic Therapy

ICAM uses new, highly selective non-toxic sensitizers, light & ultra sound equipment to:

1. Treat localized areas with intense SPDT. We treat the area where your cancer is located, and its surrounding tissues more heavily, or where it could be, and then give these areas more intense therapy.

2. We then treat these areas with ultra sound, thereby attacking the cancer a different way, using a different mechanism to activate the sensitizer, and an activating medium (sound) which behaves differently to light.

Some useful characteristics of the ICAM Therapy

1. Knowledge of type of tumor and the exact tumor location are not required. We only need a general idea where the tumors are, or are likely to be – this is ascertained by assessment of patient medical records. Compare this with radiation therapy and surgery, which require accurate knowledge of tumor size and location. Chemotherapy and hormone therapy require accurate knowledge of the type of tumor present.

2. There are no known disease transmission processes associated with this therapy. With surgery and biopsies, cutting into tumors may result in the growth of smaller tumors at distant sites, or along the surgical wounds (9).

3. The therapy can be repeated as often as required. This is because the sensitizer has very low or no toxicity before it is exposed to light or sound. The body treats it as a foodstuff. Once activated, it is toxic, but only to the cells it is in, i.e. the cancer cells. Thus the sensitizer acts as a 'Trojan horse', and the body does not develop resistance to it. Compare this with chemotherapy and radiation therapy, where the larger the dose, the greater the damage to normal cells as well as to cancer cells. Also, with chemotherapy, the body correctly treats these drugs as toxins. It may learn to resist them, resulting in the drugs no longer being effective.

4. The two therapies together are more effective than either alone (17).