Cancer Being Treated With Light??
Poster: Daniel Doty
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:07:20 PM
Reported by Science Daily, October 20, 2010:
Is it possible to treat cancer with light? Well, at University of California, Irvine, they believe it may be true to treat cancer cells using LED's and photosensitizing chemicals that absorb light.
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Is it possible to treat cancer with light? Well, at University of California, Irvine, they believe it may be true to treat cancer cells using LED's and photosensitizing chemicals that absorb light.
Here is what Science Daily has to say about this:
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In PDT, photosensitizing chemicals that absorb light are injected into a tumor, which is then exposed to light. The chemicals generate oxygen radicals from the light energy, destroying the cancer cells. PDT is currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of esophageal and lung cancer.
Rolf Saager, who works in the lab of Anthony Durkin at the Beckman Laser Institute at UC Irvine in collaboration with Kristen Kelly, M.D., and Modulated Imaging Inc., believes that PDT could also be used to treat skin cancer. But one obstacle to this application is the lack of a detailed imaging technique to target and monitor the effectiveness of PDT.
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