Plasma Medicine: A Brief Introduction

TL;DR

This paper introduces plasma medicine, an emerging multidisciplinary field focusing on applications like wound healing and cancer treatment, highlighting recent growth and ongoing research challenges.

Contribution

It provides a concise overview of plasma medicine, its applications, and the current state of research, emphasizing the need for further understanding of underlying mechanisms.

Findings

Rapid growth of plasma medicine research in recent years

Applications in wound healing and cancer treatment

Expanding understanding of plasma-cell interactions

Abstract

This mini review is to introduce the readers of Plasma to the field of plasma medicine. This is a multidisciplinary field of research at the intersection of physics, engineering, biology and medicine. Plasma medicine is only about two decades old, but the research community active in this emerging field has grown tremendously in the last few years. Today, research is being conducted on a number of applications including wound healing and cancer treatment. Although a lot of knowledge has been created and our understanding of the fundamental mechanisms that play important roles in the interaction between low temperature plasma and biological cells and tissues has greatly expanded, much remains to be done to get a thorough and detailed picture of all the physical and biochemical processes that enter into play.