• Question: If you use lasers in your work to cure cancer do you think your getting a brake through? How long have you been working with lasers to you think you will ever find a cure?

    Asked by dandelion to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 27 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Not what I use lasers for. Perhaps Mike or Pip are the experts here?

    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      I think I may one day find a way of treating some skin cancers, but ‘cancer’ describes such a wide range of diseases that I doubt the same approach will cure them all.

    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 28 Jun 2012:

      I am using lasers to help get more information about nanotechnology which probably is going to a big part of the treatment of many cancers in the future. I have not made a breakthrough yet but when I do I am hoping we can improve these treatments to make them even more effective.

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