Table 2. Photosensitizers instigating various cell death pathways as cancer phototherapeutics.

Sl. no.	Photosensitizer	Cell line	Photo-cytotoxicity	Cell death pathway	Reference
1	22	HeLa	1.18 ± 0.51 μM	Ferroptosis	103
2	23	4 T1	<90%		104
3	24	HT1080	7.48 μM		105
4	25	HeLa	12.66 ± 0.25 μM		106
5	26	PANC-1	2.70 ± 0.11 μM		107
6	27	HeLa	1.45 ± 0.22 μM		108
7	28	MDA-MB-231	0.05 ± 0.03 μM		109
8	29	4 T1	91 nM		110
9	30	A549	0.93 ± 0.1 μM	Paraptosis	118
10	31	HepG2	1.6 μM		119
11	32	MCF-7	0.86 μM		120
12	33	Jurkat cells	7–16 μM		121
13	34	Jurkat cells	0.4–7.2 μM		122
14	35	Jurkat cells	8.8–18 μM		123
15	36	MDA-MB-231	4.6 ± 0.13 μM	Pyroptosis	134
16	37	MDA-MB-231	0.1 ± 0.06 μM		135
17	38	U14	1.9 ± 0.3 μM		136
18	39	4 T1	7.1 μM		137
19	40	MDA-MB-231	0.0200 ± 0.0006 μM		138
20	41	A549	0.48 μM	Necroptosis	150
21	42	BEL-7402	0.47 ± 0.11 μM		151
22	43	MV4- 11	1.69 ± 0.23 μM		152
23	44	A549	1.94 ± 0.14 μM		153
24	45	A549R	2.2 ± 0.2 μM		154
25	46	A549	5.6 ± 0.4 μM	Autophagy	163
26	47	HeLa	0.636 μM		164
27	48	A549	0.7 μM		165
28	49	EMT6	0.6 μM		166