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Daily Exposure to a Pulsed
Electromagnetic Field for
Inhibition of Cancer Growth
Therapeutic Implications
Ivan L. Cameron, Marko S. Markov, and W. Elaine Hardman
19.1 INTRODUCTION
This chapter addresses four key questions on the effects of pulsed electromagnetic eld (PEMF) as
a potential therapy for treatment of tumorous cancers.
19.1.1 doEs pEmf tHErapy slow cancErous tumor growtH
or causE sHrinking of tumor sizE?
A number of published reports on the growth of cancerous tumors of various types exposed to
PEMF are summarized in Table 19.1. All of these reports demonstrated signicant slowing of tumor
growth when exposed to PEMF in the 0.8– ...