Chemist refines treatment of prostate cancer with light

Monday, June 7, 2010 - 19:12 in Health & Medicine

There's more than one way to kill a cancer cell. Cliff Berkman is working on a better way -- one that specifically targets prostate cancer cells and causes a type of natural death that spares surrounding tissues from damage. In a recent paper in the journal Cancer Letters, he describes a method that delivers to the cells a chemical that, when exposed to a certain type of light, prompts the cells to die and disappear with minimal side effects.

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