An effective but painful treatment

Thursday, June 23, 2016 - 13:51 in Health & Medicine

Photodynamic therapy is an effective treatment for early-stage skin cancer. However, this therapy can cause patients severe pain. The reason for this was previous a mystery to researchers. Physiologists have now discovered that it is due to two specific ion channels.

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