Recent Advances in Plasma-Based Cancer Treatments
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Cross-Field Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 155
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cold atmospheric plasma; cancer treatment; wound healing; clinical applications
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Dear Colleagues,
Cancer remains a major disease that threatens human life and health worldwide. Crosstalk among cancer hallmarks grants plasticity as an important characteristic of cancer cells, and this plasticity provides neoplastic cells with the capacity to evade existing targeted therapies, making the treatment of tumors more complex and challenging. Cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) has shown exceptional potential in the field of tumor therapy by generating various kinds of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species to kill cancer cells. Therefore, it is particularly important to develop a novel strategy using CAP as a monotherapy or in combination with existing therapies such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and immunotherapy, as well as the corresponding molecular mechanisms underlying these processes.
We look forward to collecting research articles and review papers on the above-mentioned topics for a Special Issue of Molecules entitled “Recent Advances in Plasma-Based Cancer Treatments”. We hope the papers in this Special Issue will be of high value to scientists working in the field of plasma medicine. We thank you for your efforts and contributions and look forward to receiving your valuable papers in the coming months.
Dr. Dehui Xu
Dr. Bo Guo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cold atmospheric plasma
- non-thermal plasma
- reactive species
- cancer hallmarks
- therapy-resistant cancers
- polytherapy
- chemosensitivity
- radiosensitivity
- immunotherapy
- molecular mechanism
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