Electric fields have potential as a cancer treatment

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Alternating electric fields affect tumor cells by (a) slowing their division time from under one hour to more than three hours. The fields also (bc) disintegrate cells in the later stages of cell division. Credit: Physics Today adapted from Kirson et ...
Alternating electric fields affect tumor cells by (a) slowing their division time from under one hour to more than three hours. The fields also (b,c) disintegrate cells in the later stages of cell division. Credit: Physics Today, adapted from Kirson et al., Cancer Res. 64, 3288, 2004

Low-intensity electric fields can disrupt the division of cancer cells and slow the growth of brain tumors, suggest laboratory experiments and a small human trial, raising hopes that electric fields will become a new weapon for stalling the progression of cancer.


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