Editorial Plasma and Cancer Treatment

Abstract

The International Workshop on Plasma for Cancer Treatment, IWPCT, is an international workshop that focuses on basic and clinical research into the interaction of low temperature plasmas (LTP) with cancer cells and tumors. It was founded in 2014 by Prof. M. Keidar and Prof. M. Laroussi as a venue for researchers to present their cutting edge research on the application of LTP for cancer treatment, or “plasma oncology.” The first IWPCT was held in March 2014 in Washington, DC, USA, under the co-chairmanship of M. Laroussi (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA) and M. Keidar (George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA). The second workshop, IWPCT-2, was held in March 2015 in Nagoya, Japan under the chairmanship of Prof. M. Hori (Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan). IWPCT-3 was held again in Washington, DC, USA, in April 2016 under the co-chairmanship of Dr. J. Canady (Jerome Canady Research Institute, Takoma Park, MD, USA) and Dr. J. Sherman (George Washington University). The fourth workshop, IWPCT-4, was held on March 27–28, 2017 at the Institut Curie, Paris, France, under the co-chairmanship of Dr. J. Santos-Sousa (Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, France) and Dr. P.-M. Girard (Institut Curie). IWPCT-4 was technically co-sponsored by the IEEE-NPSS and full papers based on the oral presentations given at the workshop were submitted and peer-reviewed for eventual inclusion in this issue of TRPMS.