Western researchers advance electric field therapy for aggressive brain cancer

In the long human struggle against glioblastoma — a cancer that has outlasted nearly every treatment devised against it — researchers at Western University have found an unexpected ally in electricity itself. Drawing on technology once used to quiet the tremors of Parkinson's disease, neurosurgeon Dr. Matthew Hebb and his team have demonstrated that precisely calibrated electric fields can slow tumor growth eightfold in animal models, without harming the healthy brain tissue around it. The insight is both ancient and radical: not burning or poisoning the cancer, but interrupting the very momen