But when a surgeon opened her up last fall to cut out the deadly tumor that was squeezing her bile duct, he saw that it had engulfed nearby arteries. It was impossible to remove.
Now Correa is trying a gentler-sounding approach at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital: light.
First she was infused with medicine that made the tumor cells light-sensitive. Two days later, physician David Loren carefully threaded a flexible fiber down through her intestines and bathed the cancerous mass with...
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