http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/ Engadget Comments for Lumicure claims to be making progress in using OLEDs to treat skin cancer http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/Dec 19th 2008 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/Dec 19th 2008 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/Dec 19th 2008 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/Dec 19th 2008 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/Because skin cancer currently has a 98%+ cure rate if you catch it before it's spread to other parts of your body. Essentially you just cut it out, and you're done.
So the problem is mostly that it doesn't get detected in time, not that it's not curable. And if I found out I had skin cancer I'd much rather go with the cure that already has a 98%+ cure rate than try some wacky new OLED product that'll try to kill the cancer cells.
Even if it actually does kill cancer cells, leaving the cancer cells sitting around while you shine lights on it rather obviously boosts the chances of the cancer metastasizing. Maybe it could be useful in shining on the skin AFTER you've cut out most of the cancer to make sure there aren't any cells left behind, but this doesn't make a lot of sense if you have a fast growing tumor that can metastasize at any moment.
And obviously it's completely and utterly useless against any skin cancer that's metastasized.]]>Dec 19th 2008 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/Dec 19th 2008 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/Dec 19th 2008 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/Dec 19th 2008 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/Dec 19th 2008 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/Dec 19th 2008 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/Dec 19th 2008 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/http://www.sticksite.com/cancer/
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Yeah, I'm sure they're going to be really unbiased about the promise of OLED curing cancer... right.]]>Dec 19th 2008 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/Dec 19th 2008 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/Dec 19th 2008 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/lumicure-claims-to-be-making-progress-in-using-oleds-to-treat-sk/http://iFace.us - iFace becomes your own iPhone app for free and you can share it for free also. Also iFace has a cool iPhone Acne Cure App also that is dermatologist recommended. iFace.us]]>Jan 14th 2010 3:58PM