| Literature DB >> 26418302 |
Sijumon Kunjachan1, Alexandre Detappe1,2, Rajiv Kumar1,3, Thomas Ireland4, Lisa Cameron5, Douglas E Biancur1, Vincent Motto-Ros2, Lucie Sancey2, Srinivas Sridhar1,3, G Mike Makrigiorgos1, Ross I Berbeco1.
Abstract
More than 50% of all cancer patients receive radiation therapy. The clinical delivery of curative radiation dose is strictly restricted by the proximal healthy tissues. We propose a dual-targeting strategy using vessel-targeted-radiosensitizing gold nanoparticles and conformal-image guided radiation therapy to specifically amplify damage in the tumor neoendothelium. The resulting tumor vascular disruption substantially improved the therapeutic outcome and subsidized the radiation/nanoparticle toxicity, extending its utility to intransigent or nonresectable tumors that barely respond to standard therapies.Entities:
Keywords: Gold nanoparticles; endothelial radiation damage; image-guided radiation therapy; tumor vascular disruption
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26418302 PMCID: PMC5507193 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03073
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nano Lett ISSN: 1530-6984 Impact factor: 11.189