WVU Medicine-Thomas Memorial Hospital is bringing new hope to head and neck cancer patients undergoing aggressive treatment. A new light therapy designed to prevent and treat mouth sores, which are caused by chemo-radiation therapy. These sores can severely impact a patient’s ability to perform everyday functions like eating, swallowing, and speaking, and often result in malnutrition, dehydration and a major decrease in their quality of life. The way the new therapy works is by using a device called the Thor Photobiomodulation device. The PBM device gives off near infrared low-level lasers that both stimulate and accelerate wound healing and tissue regeneration,offering an option to not just treat the symptoms but also to treat the disease process itself