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Subject: Light therapy
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shadow27 9.06.19 - 12:43pm
After 500 controlled medical studies, clinical trials that use light beams of a certain wavelength to kill skin cancers are set to begin in Australia this year.
Dr Andrew Stephens, from the Hudson Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, has trialled a new photo-dynamic drug being developed by the Invion company - IVX-PO2, a modified form of chrlorophyll from plants - to kill ovarian cancer cells in petri dishes 
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shadow27 9.06.19 - 12:47pm
''We've done lots of testing in the lab and it has been very effective ay killing tumour cells,'' Dr Stephens said.
''It's not a case of will it or won't it work, it's a case of how effective it will be.''
The chemical is quickly cleared from the body, but it is taken up by cancer cells circulating in the blood.
When the patient is exposed to light beams of a certain wavelength, the photosensitiser becomes toxic to the cancer cells. * +
shadow27 9.06.19 - 12:57pm
The chemical is also being turned into an intravenous formulation to see if it can treat ovarian, lung and prostate cancers.
The researchers want to test if it can kickstart the body's immune system and not only kill the cancer but prevent it returning.
''We already know it can kill ovarian cancer tumours,'' Dr Stephens told the Sunday Mail.
''Now we want to know what the immune consequences are, can it lead to a protective response.'' * +
3mel 9.06.19 - 02:39pm
sometimes you've gotta wonder who first came up with an idea to try something * +
1bad_boy 9.06.19 - 02:45pm
Maybe theres something to be said for holistic health and natural homeopathic choices..
How many millions were spent trying to produce medications that had similar medicinal qualities as marijuana or opium?
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3mel 9.06.19 - 02:49pm
Big Pharma can't endorse something you can grow in your garden, our sickness is their livelihood. * +
1bad_boy 9.06.19 - 02:50pm
Sad state of affairs * +
mok214 9.06.19 - 04:11pm
So far the only light therapy I know that works for certain is UV light therapy for people that suffer from plaque psoriasis and for vitamin D deficiencies. Everything else witch doctory. 
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