| Breast Cancer, The Cure | | | | who developed this treatment is Mo Keshtgar. |
| Is there a cure for breast cancer? There is no real | | | | His treatment is known as Photodynamic Therapy |
| cure because the causes of this condition are not | | | | PDT. It includes injecting the medicine into the body, |
| clearly known. It can affect any woman, no matter | | | | around the tumour tissue. These chemicals make the |
| where and how she lives. Doctors are approaching | | | | lymph tumour tissue light sensitive. When the red |
| the treatment by getting rid of the consequence, not | | | | laser light lights the area, only the tumour cells |
| the cause. The treatments are aggresive: surgery, | | | | reproduce the light and this makes it a precise way |
| radiation, and chemotherapy. That's despite of the | | | | to detect the cancer cells. This process also cuts the |
| billions of dollars being spent on the research. | | | | malign cell oxygen supply, killing them efficiently. This |
| However, these kinds of treatments can be very | | | | kind of targeting means the smaller part of the tissue |
| effective! Especially if used during the early stage | | | | is going to get removed, compared to surgeries. |
| (called Stage 1). | | | | This method is a big step forward in curing this type |
| Light Breast Cancer Treatment Instead of Operation | | | | of cancer. This kind of targeting the malign cells was |
| This new technique to remove the cancer is the | | | | unimaginable before. Experts hope to apply this |
| easiest for the body to take. It allows detection, | | | | method to other cancer conditions as well. This |
| targeting and killing the breast cancer cells - all just by | | | | therapy is available since June 2009 in Royal Free |
| using light. The name of the pioneer cancer surgeon | | | | Hospital in London. |