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Electric Fields Slow Cell Division

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Alternating electric fields affect tumor cells by (a) slowing their division time from under one hour to more than three hours. The fields also (b,c) disintegrate cells in the later stages of cell division.

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Physics Today, adapted from Kirson et al., Cancer Res. 64, 3288, 2004.

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