Cancer Nanotechnology: Opportunities for Prevention, Diagnosis, and Therapy
- 2 February 2017
- book chapter
- protocol
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
- Vol. 1530, 3-12
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6646-2_1
Abstract
Nanotechnological innovations over the last 16 years have brought about the potential to revolutionize specific therapeutic drug delivery to cancer tissue without affecting normal tissues. In addition, there are new nanotechnology-based platforms for diagnosis of cancers and for theranostics, i.e., integrating diagnosis with therapy and follow-up of effectiveness of therapy. This chapter presents an overview of these nanotechnology-based advancements in the areas of prevention, diagnosis, therapy, and theranostics for cancer. In addition, we stress the need to educate bio- and medical students in the field of nanotechnology.This publication has 66 references indexed in Scilit:
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