NASA Light Technology Helps Cancer Patients Heal | NASA & Space Technology Spinoffs | Cancer & Medicine
The WARP 75 device uses High Emissivity Aluminiferous Luminescent Substrate, or HEALS.
CREDIT: David Higginbotham | NASA
NASA technology originally developed to study plant growth in space has found a new application — helping cancer patients recover from painful treatments.
The technology — known as High Emissivity Aluminiferous Luminescent Substrate, or HEALS — generates powerful streams of red and infrared light. In a two-year clinical trial, HEALS substantially reduced the painful side effects of chemotherapy and radiation treatment in cancer patients who had undergone bone marrow or stem cell transplants, researchers said.
"Using this technology as a healing agent was phenomenal," clinical trial principal investigator Dr. Donna Salzman, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, said in a statement. "The HEALS device was well tolerated with no adverse [...]
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