By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent 209PM GMT twelve March 2010
The Ambulight device functions by triggering a containing alkali greeting that kills the cancer cells.
The creation could potentially assistance thousands of people diagnosed with the condition each year.
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It uses a comparatively new technique called photodynamic therapy, that uses light to turn on absolute drug placed on the carcenogenic area.
Previously, patients would have had to outlay hours in sanatorium whilst the light was practical to their skin.
With the growth of the plaster, however, that contains a small light device, patients can embrace the diagnosis as they go about their every day business.
Although at the impulse they would still have to have a sanatorium appointment to embrace the drugs, the inventors of the new smear hold that the total care could sometime be delivered in GP surgeries.
Prof James Ferguson, from Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, who invented the device, pronounced "We get an 80-90 per cent finish cure.
"What we are anticipating to do is optimise it further, by utilizing new ways of delivering the light ... pulsing for example.
"So there is room for improvement."
The device can customarily be used to provide non-melanoma skin cancer, that is customarily not deadly and intensely common, inspiring around 81,000 people a year in Britain.
It would not be befitting for the some-more deadly form of the disease, virulent melanoma, that affects around 10,000 people annually.
Dr Alison Ross, from Cancer Research UK, pronounced "Photodynamic care has been around for multiform years right away and the infrequently used for treating non-melanoma skin cancer.
"It customarily involves carrying to lay still underneath a light for a little time, so this new approach of reception the diagnosis utilizing a light-emitting plaster" competence give people some-more freedom.
"It will be engaging to see the formula of correct trials of these inclination to find out either they are as in effect as required photodynamic care for treating non-melanoma skin cancer."
The Ambulight is to be strictly launched at the European Society for Photodynamic Therapy in Monaco.
