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Help us fund the fight for breast cancer. Photetica has developed a patented science delivered via a medical device that provides a unique low level laser technology; the company's focus is treating patients that are currently under going cancer treatment. Patients undergoing chemotherapy potentially face a variety of side effects -- nausea, sleeplessness, pain, CIPN (chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy-- one of the most common reasons for discontinuing chemotherapy), hair loss and a compromised immune system often resulting in a reduced white blood cell count that could be responsible for the temporary or permanent termination of chemotherapy. According to www.ons.org (2011), CIPN is caused by five major drug classes: Taxanes, Platinums, Vinca alkaloids, Protease inhibitors, and Anti-angiogenesis agents. Cancer patients can be prescribed drugs for pain, nausea, sleeplessness and for boosting the white blood cell count. These may treat some side effects of chemotherapy but they do nothing to repair damage to the peripheral nervous system which is severely damaged in approximately 30-40% of those patients that enter chemotherapy treatment (American Cancer Society).