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Cold Atmospheric Plasma For Selectively Ablating Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells, Mian Wang, Benjamin Holmes, Xiaoqian Cheng, Wei Zhu, Michael Keidar, Lijie Grace Zhang

Medicine Faculty Publications

Traditional breast cancer treatments such as surgery and radiotherapy contain many inherent limitations with regards to incomplete and nonselective tumor ablation. Cold atomospheric plasma (CAP) is an ionized gas where the ion temperature is close to room temperature. It contains electrons, charged particles, radicals, various excited molecules, UV photons and transient electric fields. These various compositional elements have the potential to either enhance and promote cellular activity, or disrupt and destroy them. In particular, based on this unique composition, CAP could offer a minimally-invasive surgical approach allowing for specific cancer cell or tumor tissue removal without influencing healthy cells. Thus, …