Medical Hypotheses
Volume 54, Issue 2 , Pages 177-179, February 2000

Selective treatment of neoplastic cells using ferritin-mediated electromagnetic hyperthermia

  • M. Babincová

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biophysics and Chemical Physics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
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  • D. Leszczynska

      Affiliations

    • Department of Civil Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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  • P. Sourivong

      Affiliations

    • Physics Department, University of North Dakota, Grand Fork, ND, USA
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  • P. Babinec

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biophysics and Chemical Physics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
    • Department of Chemistry, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA

Received 18 August 1998; accepted 8 December 1998.

Abstract 

A new method of cancer treatment is proposed, based on the unique magnetic properties of ferritin iron core which, in alternating magnetic field of frequency ~ 100 kHz, is easily heated to temperatures sufficiently high to destroy neoplastic cells containing an excess of this protein, without damaging the normal cells.

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PII: S0306-9877(99)90011-7

doi:10.1054/mehy.1999.0011

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 54, Issue 2 , Pages 177-179, February 2000

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