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Journal of Cancer Research and Treatment. 2015, 3(1), 1-5
DOI: 10.12691/jcrt-3-1-1
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Water’s Many Roles in Laser Photobiomodulation

Luis Santana-Blank1, , Elizabeth Rodríguez-Santana1, Karin E. Santana-Rodríguez1, Jesús A. Santana-Rodríguez1 and Heberto Reyes1, 2

1Fundalas, Foundation for Interdisciplinary Research and Development, Caracas, Venezuela

2Department of Radiology, Hospital J.M. Vargas, Caracas, Venezuela

Pub. Date: January 06, 2015
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Luis Santana-Blank, Elizabeth Rodríguez-Santana, Karin E. Santana-Rodríguez, Jesús A. Santana-Rodríguez and Heberto Reyes. Water’s Many Roles in Laser Photobiomodulation. Journal of Cancer Research and Treatment. 2015; 3(1):1-5. doi: 10.12691/jcrt-3-1-1

Abstract

The roles of water and carbon dioxide in laser/light interactions in higher-order biological systems and their implications in cellular microenvironments and complex systemic processes for the restoration of homeostasis-homeokinesis, even when metabolic pathways have been compromised, are discussed. This lecture summarizes three decades of pre-clinical and clinical investigations and the basis for a potentially new therapeutic approach for the treatment of advanced cancer and other complex diseases using laser photobiomodulation. We propose that light-water interactions offer a potent, alternate and complementary pathway to activate and modulate tumor suppression and/or proto-oncogenic expression through energy transfer via water and CO2 in multi-fractal regimes, leading to the coupling of spatiotemporal oscillators. Laser photobiomodulation may, thus, offer the possibility of targeting multiple hallmarks of cancer and other complex diseases using fit-for-purpose electromagnetic (light) energy to restore physiologically reparative and regenerative mechanisms that can help reestablish homeostasis-homeokinesis, constituting a new emerging paradigm in the treatment of cancer and other complex diseases.

Keywords:
photobiomodulation water exclusion zone (EZ) biobattery cancer complex diseases

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