Health. Pancreatic Cancer: Laser Therapy to Operate Inaccessible Tumors
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What if a beam of light could help treat certain tumours of the pancreas that are impossible to operate? In the United States, doctors have tested a technique that combines a photosensitive drug with a laser to destroy the blood vessels that feed the tumor. The first results are encouraging, even if the trial is currently carried out on only six patients.
The Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCI Health (California University) is conducting a Phase 1 clinical trial, the first on man, which uses laser light to target localized but non-operable pancreatic tumors. Radiologist Dr. Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh, an expert of national fame in interventional approaches for the treatment of tumors, directs the innovative clinical experimentation, which uses [...] The article Tumor to pancreas, promises wel…
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