Scientists harness light therapy to target and kill cancer cells in world first
by Andrew Gregory Health editor from Science | The Guardian on (#60FK5)
Exclusive: experts believe new form of photoimmunotherapy may become fifth major cancer treatment
Scientists have successfully developed a revolutionary cancer treatment that lights up and wipes out microscopic cancer cells, in a breakthrough that could enable surgeons to more effectively target and destroy the disease in patients.
A European team of engineers, physicists, neurosurgeons, biologists and immunologists from the UK, Poland and Sweden joined forces to design the new form of photoimmunotherapy.
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