Electric Plasma Lung Cancer Treatment

By Nathaniel D. Taylor

What is the future of cancer treatment? Electric plasma has been used industrially for probably 100 years but only in the last 15 years has it been discovered for its great potential in the medical field for a wide variety of applications.

Korea is one of the world’s leaders in high tech device development. Using methods learned in the creation of plasma display panels, new devices are being developed to treat cancer. Similar technology that goes into plasma TVs can be developed to generate non-thermal electric plasma devices for the medical field.

Plasma Jet
Source: Drexel Plasma Institute

Electric discharge plasma was described further in my previous article “New Approach to Cancer Treatment in Korea”

New Approaches to Cancer Treatment Being Developed in Korea

By Nathaniel D. Taylor

This article will provide an introduction to plasma and some of the work that is being done with it. Later articles will explore plasma further and explain more specific projects and research group.

Argon gas plasma discharge.
Photo Credit: Plasma Bioscience Research Center, Kwangwoon University

Throughout Korea and around the world, research labs are working to develop new treatments for cancer using electric plasma. Traditional methods of cancer treatment rely heavily on the use of pharmaceuticals as well as other invasive treatments like surgery and radiation. Plasma has the potential to selectively reduce cancer cells without additional chemicals.