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  2. Lasers in cancer treatment - Wikipedia

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    Lasers are used to treat cancer in several different ways. Their high-intensity light can be used to shrink or destroy tumors or precancerous growths. Lasers are most commonly used to treat superficial cancers (cancers on the surface of the body or the lining of internal organs) such as basal-cell skin cancer and the very early stages of some cancers, such as cervical, penile, vaginal, vulvar ...

  3. PUVA therapy - Wikipedia

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    PUVA ( psoralen and UVA) is an ultraviolet light therapy treatment for skin diseases: vitiligo, eczema, psoriasis, graft-versus-host disease, mycosis fungoides, large plaque parapsoriasis, and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, using the sensitizing effects of the drug psoralen. [1] : 686 [2] [3] The psoralen is applied or taken orally to sensitize the ...

  4. Electroanalgesia - Wikipedia

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    Electroanalgesia is a form of analgesia, or pain relief, that uses electricity to ease pain. Electrical devices can be internal or external, at the site of pain (local) or delocalized throughout the whole body. It works by interfering with the electric currents of pain signals, inhibiting them from reaching the brain and inducing a response ...

  5. Photodynamic therapy - Wikipedia

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    Photodynamic therapy ( PDT) is a form of phototherapy involving light and a photosensitizing chemical substance used in conjunction with molecular oxygen to elicit cell death ( phototoxicity ). [1] PDT is used in treating acne, wet age-related macular degeneration, psoriasis, and herpes.

  6. Shaadi Ke Side Effects - Wikipedia

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    Box office. est. ₹ 696 million [1] Shaadi Ke Side Effects ( transl. Side effects of marriage) is a 2014 Indian Hindi -language romantic comedy film directed by Saket Chaudhary, and starring Farhan Akhtar and Vidya Balan. It is the sequel to the 2006 film Pyaar Ke Side Effects. The film is produced by Balaji Motion Pictures and Pritish Nandy ...

  7. Side Effects (Mariah Carey song) - Wikipedia

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    Storch. " Side Effects " is a song by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey from her eleventh studio album, E=MC² (2008). It was written by Carey, Scott Storch, Crystal Johnson and the song's featured artist, Young Jeezy. It was inspired by Carey's marriage to record executive Tommy Mottola and his controlling nature over her and her career.

  8. Masculinizing hormone therapy - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Masculinizing hormone therapy, also known as transmasculine hormone therapy or female-to-male (or FTM) hormone therapy, is a form of hormone therapy and gender affirming therapy which is used to change the secondary sexual characteristics of transgender people from feminine or androgynous to masculine. [1] [2] [3] It is a common type of ...

  9. Endre Mester - Wikipedia

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    Endre Mester. Hungarian physician Endre Mester (1903–1984) was a pioneer of laser medicine, especially the use of low level laser therapy (LLLT). In 1967, only a few years after the first working laser was invented, he started his experiments with the effects of lasers on skin cancer. He is credited as the discoverer of positive biological ...