Advances in Low-Temperature Plasma Cancer Therapy

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Dear Colleagues,

This topic will cover the most recent topics in the field of plasma cancer therapy. In the past two decades, low-temperature plasma cancer therapy has been proven to reflect promising effectiveness on many types of cancer cells in vitro and in vivo. Selectivity was also discovered that the normal cells and cancer cells respond differently to the plasma which can be used to minimize the side effects of the treatment. However, new active ingredients are discovered such as the radiofrequency emissions from the plasma, proving that plasma therapy is still not a fully understand cocktail. Therefore, the dose of plasma therapy is still unknown. On the other hand, since the plasma exposure to the open air can be disturbed by the environmental condition such as humidity and the target status such as the distance, control methods were also developed for the plasma generators to stabilize the treatments. This also leads to new low-temperature plasma generators such as plasma jet arrays to cover a larger treatment area, flexible DBD patches, and discharge tubes relying on physical effects only. Therefore, the frontiers in this field are clear, and we expect the following topics will be discussed soon.

Prof. Dr. Michael Keidar
Dr. Li Lin
Dr. Dayun Yan
Topic Editors

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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Cancers cancers	4.5	8.0	2009	17.4 Days	CHF 2900
Catalysts catalysts	3.8	6.8	2011	13.9 Days	CHF 2200
Current Oncology curroncol	2.8	3.3	1994	19.8 Days	CHF 2200
Plasma plasma	1.9	2.3	2018	26.8 Days	CHF 1400
Sci sci	-	4.5	2019	37.1 Days	CHF 1200

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