Therapeutic Approaches Based on Plasmas and Nanoparticles

Plasma medicine is a new, largely unexplored, multi-disciplinary scientific field, which involves physics, chemistry, engineering and biology. This field emerged as results of intense research effort over last few decades in low-temperature (or cold) atmospheric plasma application in bioengineering [1-3]. The unique chemical and physical properties of cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) have enabled recent biomedical applications including sterilization, bacteria deactivation, wound healing, tissue or cellular removal, dentistry [4-6]. More recently potential of CAP application in cancer therapy has been explored [7-10]. CAP treatment leads to selective eradication of cancer cells in vitro and reduction of tumor size in vivo.