CARCINOGENIC POTENTIAL OF INVITRO CARBON-DIOXIDE LASER EXPOSURE OF FIBROBLAST

  • 1 January 1983
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 61  (4) , 493-496
Abstract
Increasing clinical use of the CO2 laser in gynecology is valuable for both external genital and internal reproductive problems. Long-term safety effects of the CO2 laser were investigated. Fibroblasts grown in tissue culture were exposed to the CO2 laser. They were then grown for 9 future generations and scored for possible malignant transformation. The CO2 laser does not produce a greater incidence of malignant transformation than normal controls. In laboratory cells, the CO2 laser appears to be noncarcinogenic.