SPACE-AGE PROBE TREATS BRAIN CANCER.(Brief Article) From: USA Today (Magazine) | Date: February 1, 2000 | COPYRIGHT 2000 Society for the Advancement of Education. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

For the first time, surgeons have used a special lighting technology, developed for space-based commercial plant growth research on NASA's Space Shuttle. in two successful operations to treat brain cancer on Earth. For the treatment technique called photodynamic therapy, a surgeon uses tiny pinhead size light emitting diodes (LEDs) a source releasing long wavelengths of light--to activate light-sensitive, tumor-treating drugs,

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