CANCER LIGHT TRIAL.Byline: By MIRROR REPORTER CANCER patients have been given a ray of light thanks to a pioneering treatment using beams from fibre optic cables. Researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute The Roswell Park Cancer Institute is a cancer research and treatment center located in Buffalo, New York. Founded in 1898 by Dr. Roswell Park, it was the first dedicated medical facility for cancer treatment and research in the United States. in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of hope photodynamic therapy - or PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT - may be able to treat advanced cancers. Still in its experimental stage, the new therapy uses light-sensitive drugs to destroy tumours. Shining light on a tumour after the drugs have been injected activates the dosage, and avoids some side effects linked to chemotherapy. Research leader Dr Sandra Gollnick said: "It raises the prospect of treatment applied locally that stimulates the body's own defences to seek out and destroy cancer cells." |
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