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Platinum, Blue Light Combine to Combat Cancer

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COVENTRY, England, Dec. 14, 2010 — Research led by the University of Warwick has found a way to use blue light to activate what could be a highly potent platinum-based cancer treatment. The team, also consisting of researchers from Ninewells Hospital Dundee and the University of Edinburgh, have found a new light-activated platinum-based compound that is up to 80 times more powerful than other platinum-based anticancer drugs and which can use “light activation” to kill cancer cells in a much more targeted way than similar treatments. Professor Peter Sadler, University of Warwick. The University of...Read full article

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    Published: December 2010
    Basic ScienceBiophotonicsblue lightcisplatincytotoxic compoundEnglandesophageal cancerEuropelight activationLight SourcesNinewells Hospital Dundeeovarian cancerplatinum-based anticancer drugplatinum-based cancer treatmentResearch & Technologythe University of Edinburghtrans trans trans-[Pt(N3)2(OH)2(py)2]tumorsultraviolet lightUniversity of WarwickLEDs

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