Proceedings Article | 2 May 2008
KEYWORDS: Laser therapeutics, Diagnostics, Laser tissue interaction, Tumors, Cancer, Photodynamic therapy, Oncology, Laser development, Laser applications, Tissues
Laser-optical information technologies and devices develop since the 70- years at the end of 20 century and are
broadly used for diagnostics and treatment of oncological diseases to date.
Although such methods as photodynamic therapy (PDT), laser-induce thermotherapy (LITT), fluorescent
diagnostics and spectrophotometry already more than 30 years are used for treatment and diagnostics of oncological
diseases, nevertheless, they are enough new methods and, as a rule, are used in large scientific centers and medical
institutions. This is bound, first of all, with lack of information on modern method of cancer treatment, the absence of
widely available laser procedures and corresponding devices in the polyclinics and even in district hospitals, as well as
insufficient understanding of application areas, where laser methods has an advantage by comparison, for instance, with
beam or chemotherapy.
At present day laser methods are fast upcoming direction of the treatment oncological diseases. This is explained by
progress in development essentially laser, particularly diode, improvement electronic and computing components and
broad introduction software-algorithmic methods of control the undertaking therapeutic and diagnostic procedures.
In article are considered new laser methods of the undertaking diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and is shown
that introduction multiwave laser radiation for probe and influences on tissue, the different methods of the determination
of the functional state of tissues, realization of the on-line diagnostics when carrying out the therapeutic procedures,
automatic control systems of the power laser radiation, which depends on state patient tissue, as well as software-algorithmic
methods of management session therapeutic and diagnostic procedures greatly raises efficiency of the
treatment oncological diseases.
On an example of the multipurpose laser therapeutic devices("MLTA") developed and introduced in clinical
practice and multipurpose laser diagnostic complexes ("MLDC"), the realizing offered methods, are shown the basic
tendencies of development laser methods in oncology, concrete technical decisions and the experimental clinical material
showing increase of efficiency of treatment of a cancer at their realization are resulted.
It is shown, that realization of the offered methods and technical technologies opens new competitive advantages
laser technologies in comparison with beam and chemical-therapy at treatment of oncological diseases.
