(((If somebody at some coffee-shop told me that "electrical fields can cure cancer," I'd instantly dismiss him as some kind of tinfoil-hat crank... But check out the illustrations in this plausible TECH REVIEW
piece. If I'm not mistaken, that cancer-survivor on the park bench there is wearing what is basically an upgraded tinfoil hat.)))
Link: Technology Review: Electric Fields Kill Tumors.
"The electric-field therapy was developed by Yoram Palti, a physiologist at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, who founded the company NovoCure to commercialize the treatment. Palti's electric fields cause dividing cancer cells to explode while having no significant impact on normal tissues.
"The range of electric fields generated by the device harms only dividing cells. And since normal cells divide at a much slower rate than cancer cells, the electric fields target cancer cells. "An Achilles' heel of cancer cells is that they have to divide," says Herbert Engelhard, chief of neuro-oncology in the department of neurosurgery at the University of Illinois, Chicago. (...)
Palti, who for years has been studying the effect of electric fields on cancer and normal cells, says that he has verified this mechanism in computer models and experiments in the lab. "The physics are solid," says David Cohen, associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School....
