Painless way to shrink breast cancer using magnetic fields

Senior research fellow Alex Tai (left) and Associate Professor Alfredo Franco-Obregon demonstrate magnetic therapy. - National University of Singapore

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have found a painless way to kill breast cancer cells by exposing them to a pulsed magnetic field.

They hope that this method will reduce the dosage needed for chemotherapy in the future, so that patients will have fewer side effects.