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Porfimer sodium sold as Photofrin is a photosensitizer used in photodynamic therapy and radiation therapy and for palliative treatment of obstructing endobronchial non-small cell lung carcinoma and obstructing esophageal cancer.Porfimer is a mixture of oligomers formed by ether and ester linkages of up to eight porphyrin units. In practice a red light source emitting at 630 nm is used to excite the Porfimer oligomers.Porfimer is Haematoporphyrin Derivative (HpD) (See PDT).
