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Nanomaterial-Based Drug Delivery Carriers for Cancer Therapy

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-3299-8

ISBN: 978-981-10-3297-4

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Dec 10, 2016

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Chapter 1Current Status and Characteristics of Cancer

Feng, Tao; Zhao, Yanli

Pages: 1 –5

[Cancer is among the most deadly diseases known, with 13 million new cancer cases and about 8 million casualties worldwide each year. This chapter introduces the current status and causes of cancer, and the characteristics of cancer tissues including abnormal metabolism, abnormal vasculature,...
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Chapter 2Clinical Anticancer Drugs for Cancer Treatment

Feng, Tao; Zhao, Yanli

Pages: 7 –13

[Chemotherapy is the most widely used therapeutic strategy in the cancer treatment. The high incidence of cancer has led to a lot of immunotherapeutic and chemotherapeutic drugs to be developed and approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This chapter presents different kinds of...
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Chapter 3Nanomaterial-Based Drug Delivery Carriers for Cancer Therapy

Feng, Tao; Zhao, Yanli

Pages: 15 –54

[Nanomaterial-based drug delivery carriers have numerous advantages including increased solubility, prolonged circulation time, and improved biodistribution, by the utilization of the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect or active targeting to alter the uptake mechanism. This chapter...

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