Scientific American: Light Used to Treat Cancer... Kind of Reminds me of Rife ;-)

[Theodore Kurita]

See the article here:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?articleID=000B4130-5C6C-1DF7-9733809EC588EEDF&catID=2


Yes, it was written by Scientific American.

Fascinating stuff. :)

[neutrino_cannon]

Get lots of healthy sun and UV light quiaff?

I like this concept, inject chemicals that have a high level of affinity with cancer cells and then hit them with UV radiation, causing them to kill cancer cells. Am I completely off the mark here?

I wonder if other chemicals do this too. I can imagine a chemical that is absorbed by a specific type of tumor most often found in deeper tissues. When this chemical is bombarded with, say, x-rays, it kills the cells it's in.

Hm... a lot like a more selective form of existing chemical cancer treatments.

[BTox]

I read a similar article last week (in Discover?) about a method of attacking cancer cells with tiny gold spheres attached to antibodies specific to the cancer cells. Injected in the body, the spheres attach to cancer cells, then IR light is irradiated on the body, penetrating the tissue and heating the spheres, literally cooking the cancer cells. Cool approach, I thought.