by Marcia Kaye, University of Toronto Mississauga Human colorectal cancer cells. Credit: National Cancer Institute/Unsplash While chemotherapy drugs can be lifesaving, they don’t work for all patients or for all cancers. But a team of UTM researchers is looking at new ways to use special types of light to target cancer cells resistant to current drug...
SEPTEMBER 27TH, 2019 MEDGADGET EDITORS MEDICINE, NANOMEDICINE, ONCOLOGY Photodynamic therapy is a technique that relies on photosensitizer chemicals to generate reactive species that kill cancer cells. These compounds can be delivered into tumors and then light is used to activate them. One of the main reasons for the slow adoption of this technology is that...
