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


Author: Jimenez H1, Blackman C1, Lesser G2, Debinski W3, Chan M4, Sharma S1, Watabe K5, Lo HW1, Thomas A2, Godwin D6, Blackstock W7, Mudry A8, Posey J9, O'Connor R10, Brezovich I11, Bonin K12, Kim-Shapiro D12, Barbault A13, Pasche B14

Affiliation: <sup>1</sup>Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC.

<sup>2</sup>Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Hematology and Oncology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC.

<sup>3</sup>Brain Tumor Center of Excellence (BTCOE), Thomas K Hearn, Jr. Brain Tumor Research Center, Comprehensive Cancer Center Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC.

<sup>4</sup>Department of Radiation Oncology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.

<sup>5</sup>Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd, Winston Salem, NC, 27157.

<sup>6</sup>Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC.

<sup>7</sup>Department of Radiation Oncology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC.

<sup>8</sup>Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

<sup>9</sup>Department of Medical Oncology, Division of Solid Tumor, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.

<sup>10</sup>Bioelectronics Department, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France.

<sup>11</sup>Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL.

<sup>12</sup>Department of Physics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.

<sup>13</sup>TheraBionic GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany.

<sup>14</sup>Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, bpasche@wakehealth.edu.
Conference/Journal: Front Biosci (Landmark Ed).
Date published: 2018 Jan 1
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 Volume ID: 23   ,  Pages: 284-297   ,  Word Count: 96  
    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.



PMID: 28930547