New patch for skin cancer treatment

(Photo: univision.com) A patch used to treat common skin cancers has been developed by researchers in Scotland.

The ' sticky plaster ' is a small battery that provides energy and can help treat skin cancer patients at the doctor's office or even at the patient's home or at work. This new method is an adaptation of photodynamic therapy (PDT), which requires patients to remain motionless for hours under the heat of a large power source with a strong capacity to activate creams. Special against cancer is anointed on the skin.

Professor Ifor Samuel, a physicist at Andrews University, said: ' By adapting the latest technology to an existing treatment, we have developed a focused light source to cure the cancer. Normal leather letter '.

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