For example, Engelman is involved in research to use peptides to aid in destroying tumors.

One of the challenges of cancer treatment is how to destroy malignant tumors without damaging healthy cells.

In photodynamic therapy, light is used to destroy tumors by the action of singlet oxygen.

It is approved for palliative treatment to destroy tumors that block the airway but it does not cure the lung cancer.

Researchers are looking at a number of ways of destroying tumors with heat from radiofrequency waves or by freezing it, for example.

As a result, it can be used to destroy larger tumors than other ablation techniques, he says.

This offers an alternative for destroying tumors that cannot be surgically removed.

The seeds produce low-level X-rays that destroy tumors from the inside.

Blue argon lasers are used in surgery to weld arteries, destroy tumors, and to correct eye defects.

Ablation is another local treatment that destroys tumors with cold, heat, electrical currents, or alcohol.