Light therapy
is a safe, easy way to kill cancer and treat other diseases, but it's
normally limited by its nature to illnesses that are skin-deep.
Washington University researchers have
developed a phototherapy method
that brings light directly to tumor cells, no matter how deep they are.
The technique has you ingest sugar combined with radioactive
fluorine and light-sensitive, cancer-fighting nanoparticles. When you go
through a PET scan, the sugar lights up and promptly kicks the
nanoparticles into high gear. Effectively, this is the Trojan horse,
since tumors eagerly absorb sugar, they're sowing the seeds of their own
demise.
The procedure should be safe. The researchers note
that the light and material are only targeted at tumors, so you
shouldn't get sick because of some stray nanoparticles floating around
your body. There are far fewer drugs involved than in chemotherapy, too. You may not have to wait long to find out how well this in-body
light therapy works in practice, Washington University is already
planning a small-scale trial for its approach. If it proves successful
and leads to official approval, you may have a shot at recovering from
particularly sinister forms of cancer without facing terrible side
effects.
This site is for information on the various Chemo treatments and Stem Cell Therapies since 1992. This journey became bitter sweet in 2014, with the passing of my beautiful and dear wife. Sherry, had fought Non - Hodgkins Lymphoma(NHL) since 1990, in and out of remissions time and time again. From T-Cell therapies(1990's) to Dual Cord Blood Transplant(2014), she was in Clinical Trials over the years. This site is for informational purpose only and is not to promote the use of certain therapies.
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