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Dr Stephen Bown
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The National Medical Laser Centre at UCL is a translational research facility with a primary focus on understanding how light can affect biological tissues, allowing to solve conditions such as cancer and pre-cancerous abnormalities with new techniques. Dr Stephen Bown is leader of the research facility, and the pioneer of minimally invasive treatments for a range of cancers using thermal lasers and photodynamic therapy (PDT, a treatment involving sensitising tissue with photosensitising drugs which are then activated by laser light). He has developed optical techniques, particularly elastic scattering spectroscopy, that can detect pre-cancerous changes in tissue without the need for conventional biopsy and before they are visible directly.

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There are PDT units in Dundee, Glasgow, Goole, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Derby, Swansea and Gloucester. For more information please contact the London unit.

Specialisms:

Photodynamic Therapy



Last Updated:12/08/2023
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Bown, Stephen (Dr)
University College London, 67-73 Riding House Street, London, W1W 7EJ, UK - England (South East)

+44 207 679 9090 s.bown@ucl.ac.uk https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=SGBOW72 https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/researchTheme/3
All therapies provided at this location:
Photodynamic Therapy (PDT)
A photosensitising (light activated) drug is first administered to patients followed by irradiation of cancerous tissue with laser light, which converts the drug into a powerful cytotoxic (cell destroying) agent.

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