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Cancer treatment: a red light that relieves patients
People with cancer may benefit from light therapy sessions to relieve the side effects of chemotherapy. Red light can even regenerate skin tissue. – (France 3)
People with cancer may benefit from light therapy sessions to relieve the side effects of chemotherapy. Red light can even regenerate skin tissue.
Light is used to relieve many cancer patients. It helps treat the side effects caused by cancer treatments. Light therapy sessions come “prevent side effects, burns to the skin (…) or burns to the mucous membranes”explains Doctor Camélia Billard-Sandu, head of the radiology-oncotherapy hospitalization department at the Gustave-Roussy establishment in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne).
Sessions covered by the hospital
Eight minutes under this red light helps protect patients’ skin for their next chemotherapy sessions. Beyond protection, this light can even regenerate damaged tissues. Light therapy sessions are all covered by the hospital.
