Event

 The Department of Physics Seminar Series continues this semester with the topic "Investigation of the mechanism and effects of TT Fields" presented by Mr. Ayinde Frederick, supervised by Dr. Nikolay Zyuzikov. 

This event takes place on Wednesday January 14, 2015 at 2.30pm at Room 412,Natural Sciences Building, Faculty of Science & Technology.  

For more information about other seminars in this series, click here. 

ABSTRACT

 The current forms of cancer treatments while they may be effective at treating cancer they contribute to the complications and side effects patients suffer during and after cancer therapy. The risks that are concerned with some of these various forms of treatment are, they are invasive which has limitations and can cause complications while others are non-invasive but are known to damage healthy cells in the process and as a result shortens the patients survival and or quality of life over time. If there is an effective alternative form of cancer treatment which is non-invasive and can slow or reverse tumour progression, by inducing cell death in certain solid tumours without damaging healthy cell, then the patient’s survival over time will increase. This research seeks to determine if low intensity intermediate-frequency electric fields /Tumour Treating Fields (TTF) therapy, which is a new alternative form of cancer treatment therapy can be used as this effective alternative that can disrupt the rapid cell division of cancer cells, without the associated risks that patients suffer from the current treatments available. Using in vitro techniques, low intensity electric fields of frequencies within the intermediate range (1kHz – above many MHz) will be applied across cultured cancer and normal cells. The results obtained will be then used to study the mechanism action.