RE:It Does FluoresceThat's intersting Ticktech. The 2015 press release you are quoting seems to be directly contradicted by Dr. Lilge at the 2016 AGM presentation. At 41 minutes 35 seconds, this exchange occurs:
"Questioner: At the three month point the patient comes back in to get retested. Let's say it was not efferctive and the tumour recurs, it comes back. At that point would you scrape again or would you...?
Dr. Kulkarni: Well we'd scrape again. But we'd have to have definitive proof there was recurrence and it was not simply a reaction. Because sometimes these tumours are just red. And it could simply be inflammation. And then, theoretically, depending on how this evolves, we could probably re-treat.
Dr. Lilge: So We are thinking right now, potentially, retreatment would be part of the protocol.
Questioner: At that point would we use the fluorescing of the cancer at all?
Dr. Lilge: This particular drug does not really fluoresce. The fluorescence is extremely weak - but what we have seen is that it has a very intense colour. So wherever the drug is taken up by the tissue after washing, the urologist will see a very significant colour change. Yeah? So we don't really need to do fluoresence. But again these are all based only on the animal experiments, right? We have to see what happens in ... humans.
Ticktech wrote:
"As an added advantage, both TLD-1433 and RutherrinTM may be used as tools to detect cancer cells through fluorescence. The fluorescent signature has been even further enhanced by the introduction of transferrin. Fluorescent micrograph images of rat cancer cells (AY27) with TLD-1433 alone (right image) and when combined with transferrin to produce RutherrinTM (left image) demonstrate the fluorescent signature." pr-img3 https://theralase.com/pressrelease/theralase-identifies-potential-mechanism-lead-anti-cancer-drug-works-destroy-cancer-discovers-new-application-detect-cancer-cells/ Somebody posting before thought it didn't. Probably just color change under visible light currently used but fluorescent detection of cancer cells under ultraviolet light.