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In this paper, we propose a synchronization-assist photolysis MC system that aims to transmit the biosensing signal of the tumor microenvironment, facilitated by mitigating redundant molecules for improved bit error rate (BER) performance. Benefits from biocompatible MC, biosensors could transmit biosensing signals of the tumor in vivo instead of converting them to electrical signals. Due to diffusion motion\u2019s slow and stochastic nature, intersymbol interference (ISI), resulting from previous symbols\u2019 residual information molecules, inevitably occurs in diffusion-based MC. ISI is one of the challenges in diffusion-based MC, which significantly impacts signal detection. Inspired by on\u2013off keying (OOK) modulation, the proposed modulation implements a switch of molecules and light alternatively. The light emitted is triggered by a synchronization signal, and the photolysis reactions could reduce the redundant molecules. An expression for the relevant channel impulse response (CIR) is derived from a hybrid channel model of diffusion and photolysis reaction. In this paper, we implement the maximum posterior estimation scheme to find the optimal decision threshold and analysis the BER performance in terms of different time intervals of the system. Numerical simulations demonstrate that the proposed method can improve the channel capacity and BER performance. 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