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Nanocarriers as a Tool for the Treatment of Colorectal Cancer
- Source :
- Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutics, Vol 13, Iss 1321, p 1321 (2021), Pharmaceutics, 13(8)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Nanotechnology is a promising tool for the treatment of cancer. In the past decades, major steps have been made to bring nanotechnology into the clinic in the form of nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems. The great hope of drug delivery systems is to reduce the side effects of chemotherapeutics while simultaneously increasing the efficiency of the therapy. An increased treatment efficiency would greatly benefit the quality of life as well as the life expectancy of cancer patients. However, besides its many advantages, nanomedicines have to face several challenges and hurdles before they can be used for the effective treatment of tumors. Here, we give an overview of the hallmarks of cancer, especially colorectal cancer, and discuss biological barriers as well as how drug delivery systems can be utilized for the effective treatment of tumors and metastases.
- Subjects :
- Oncology
medicine.medical_specialty
Colorectal cancer
Pharmaceutical Science
Review
03 medical and health sciences
Pharmacy and materia medica
0302 clinical medicine
Internal medicine
Medicine
Effective treatment
drug delivery system
cancer
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
biological barriers
business.industry
Cancer
medicine.disease
nanomedicine
3. Good health
RS1-441
The Hallmarks of Cancer
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Drug delivery
Life expectancy
Nanomedicine
nanoparticles
Nanocarriers
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19994923
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pharmaceutics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b28d930b86ce0430a181435df5dba371