How a new light-based cancer treatment could destroy tumors without harming healthy cells—using LEDs

Published Date: 24 Oct 2025

Cancer treatment has come a long way, but many of today's therapies still come with steep costs: not just financial, but physical and emotional too. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy remain vital tools, yet they often damage ...

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