SERS surgical navigation with postsurgical immunotherapy of local microtumors and distant metastases for improved anticancer outcomes

Authors: Yu Wen, Ruoxuan Liu, Yangcenzi Xie, Xinyu Liu, Ming Li

Published: 2024-08-16

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado2741

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Abstract

The standard of clinical care of most malignant solid cancers is surgery, followed by postsurgical adjuvant therapy, but microtumor lesions left behind after surgery and invisible distant metastases are the major reasons for treatment failure. Here, we report an integrated strategy combining surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) surgical navigation with postsurgical immunotherapy elicited by near-infrared II photothermal treatment and programmed death-1 antibody. The SERS surgical navigation is principally based on the multifunctional optical probes (namely, MATRA probes) integrating with T