Leland Man Behind Discovery to Aid Breast Cancer Fight

Leland resident Harold Walder and his Durham-based research company, Immunolight, have developed a groundbreaking approach to treating cancer. Walder and a team of scientists at Duke University Medical Center have demonstrated that a compound called psorlen – which occurs naturally in broccoli and figs – was shown to shrink breast cancer tumors in mice when activated by ultraviolet (UV) light.