Entropy Production in a Cell and Reversal of Entropy Flow as an Anticancer Therapy

TL;DR

This paper explores how electromagnetic fields, ultrasound, and pH adjustments can reverse entropy flow from cancer to healthy cells, potentially offering a new approach for anticancer therapy by halting harmful information transfer.

Contribution

It introduces a novel entropy-based mechanism for anticancer therapy, demonstrating how external fields and pH changes can reverse entropy flow between cancerous and healthy cells.

Findings

Electromagnetic fields and ultrasound can increase entropy production in normal cells.

Reversal of entropy flow can prevent harmful information transfer from cancer to healthy cells.

Modifying cell pH can also reverse entropy flow direction.

Abstract

The entropy production rate of cancer cell is always higher than healthy cell under the case of no external field applied. Different entropy production between two kinds of cells determines the direction of entropy flow among cells. The entropy flow is the carrier of information flow. The entropy flow from cancer to healthy cell takes along the harmful information of cancerous cell, propagating its toxic action to healthy tissues. We demonstrate that a low-frequency and low-intensity electromagnetic field or ultrasound irradiation may increase the entropy production rate of a cell in normal tissue than that in cancer, consequently reverse the direction of entropy current between two kinds of cells. The modification of PH value of cells may also cause the reversal of the direction of entropy flow between healthy and cancerous cells. So, the biological tissue under the irradiation of electromagnetic field or ultrasound or under the appropriate change of cell acidity can avoid the propagation of harmful information from cancer cells. We suggest that this entropy mechanism possibly provides a basis for a novel approach to anticancer therapy.