Exploiting electromagnetic fields to enhance the delivery of therapeutics to tumors

Electromagnetic fields can be exploited in various ways to navigate appropriate therapeutic vectors to tumor sites using the most direct vascular routes. Such delivery approach minimizes systemic toxicity that negatively impacts healthy organs and tissues, and results in a larger ratio of therapeutics at the target site that needs treatment. Depending mostly upon the type and the characteristics of the navigable agents being used and the various physiological conditions, different approaches exploiting in various manners the control of electromagnetic fields have been developed by our research group. But due to the difficulty in determining the best method and to help determining which approach would be more appropriated for a particular case, a decision process is proposed here for the first time. Such a model briefly described in this paper could be integrated in a software platform as part of the interventional suite.