IMR Press / FBL / Volume 23 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.2741/4591

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Use of non-ionizing electromagnetic fields for the treatment of cancer

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1 Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
2 Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
3 Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Hematology and Oncology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
4 Brain Tumor Center of Excellence (BTCOE), Thomas K Hearn, Jr. Brain Tumor Research Center, Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
5 Department of Radiation Oncology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
6 Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
7 Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
8 Department of Medical Oncology, Division of Solid Tumor, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
9 Bioelectronics Department, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France
10 Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
11 Department of Physics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
12 TheraBionic GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2018, 23(2), 284–297; https://doi.org/10.2741/4591
Published: 1 January 2018
Abstract

Cancer treatment and treatment options are quite limited in circumstances such as when the tumor is inoperable, in brain cancers when the drugs cannot penetrate the blood-brain-barrier, or when there is no tumor-specific target for generation of effective therapeutic antibodies. Despite the fact that electromagnetic fields (EMF) in medicine have been used for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes, the use of non-ionizing EMF for cancer treatment is a new emerging concept. Here we summarize the history of EMF from the 1890’s to the novel and new innovative methods that target and treat cancer by non-ionizing radiation.

Keywords
Radiofrequency
Amplitude-modulation
Cancer
TheraBionic
Novocure
Radiofrequency ablation
History
Radar
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