LED bandage to treat skin cancer – answers

By Berni | May 15, 2009

LED bandage to treat skin cancer

questions

  1. What does the high tech bandage do? It emits a healthy glow.
  2. What is Polymetrics doing? developing the product
  3. How do the drugs get on to the bandage? they’re ink jet printed on to it
  4. What produces the red light? the clusters of organic LEDs (light emitting diodes) when a voltage is applied
  5. What might the system do? revolutionise photo dynamic therapy
  6. How does this therapy work currently? using expensive lamps and laser beams
  7. How does this change the way the therapy is administered? now the patient is taken to the light with this therapy the light is taken to the patient
  8. What happens after the drug-cream is applied? it is allowed to soak into the skin
  9. For what is the treatment most commonly used? skin cancer
  10. What does this new method of treatment save? time and money
  11. When can it be administered? from the point of diagnosis
  12. What will be finished in 18 months? the clinical trials

 

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