Cold Plasma Selectivity and the Possibility of a Paradigm Shift
In Cancer Therapy
Stephen Perez
ITT Technical Institute
September 29, 2014

The Topic I selected to write about was “Cold plasma selectivity and the possibility of a paradigm shift in cancer therapy.” Essentially, this topic was about how scientists are beginning to test and monitor cold plasma on existing cells of cancer on animals. The type of interactions they were researching were between cancer cells and the cold plasma on mice. They also explained how different ion species in different types of animals could have varying results causing them to be either “plasma killing,” or “plasma healing.” In the first test on a mouse, the cold plasma was test on a simple tumor. The results after 2-5 minutes on the tumor were amazing. The swelling on the tumor had gone down in that short amount of time. After a week, the swelling was gone and it appeared as the tumor had completely been terminated, leaving a bright red spot on the mouse’s skin. Although it got rid of the tumor, it left the normal cells damaged by the plasma. They had also tested it on another mouse with three tumors and they had only treated one of three tumors. After a 24-hour time span, the tumor that was treated was less swelled, and entirely different compared to the other two tumors. This mouse’s normal cells were also damaged by the cold plasmas after effects though. These results showed positive behavior between the mice and the plasma, giving cold plasma a possible cure in cancer in the future for animals, and maybe even humans.
The conclusions that these scientists made, suggested that they were surprised with the results. They did not expect to be able to completely abolish a lot of the cancer cells, especially with just the cold plasma jet. The effect of cold plasma on different types of cell types also suggests that it is