2015년 3월 11일 수요일

Innovative light therapy reaches deep tumors

03/10/2015 12:42 PM EDT

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Using a mouse model of cancer, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have devised a way to apply light-based therapy to deep tissues never before accessible. Instead of shining an outside light, they delivered light directly to tumor cells, along with a photosensitive source of free radicals that can be activated by the light to destroy cancer. And they accomplished this using materials already approved for use in cancer patients.

Full story at https://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/Innovative-light-therapy-reaches-deep-tumors.aspx

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Washington University School of Medicine

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