An American firm is claiming that they have designed an instrument which will kill brain cancer cells without any surgery or difficult medical treatment.
The medical device which is named ‘Optune’ was approved by US government and is a FDA certified product but still doctors are slow to embrace it because they questions it’s reliability.
The device consists of electromagnetic strips that are worn over shaven scalp by cancer patients. They should be used for at least 18 hours a day, after which they should be removed.
These electromagnetic strips are attached with a small battery and device which creates a magnetic field killing cancer cells. It is believed that it doesn’t harm the brain and only kills or reduce the speed of cancer cells.
The cancer might reappear few years later but getting few more years is worth if the cost is low and no painful procedure is carried out.