| Literature DB >> 27150247 |
Yufei Ma1, Jie Huang1, Saijie Song1, Huabing Chen2, Zhijun Zhang3.
Abstract
Cancer-targeted nanotechnology is experiencing the trend of finding new materials with multiple functions for imaging and therapeutic applications. With the rapid development of the related fields, there exists a large number of reports regarding theranostic nanomedicine, decreasing the gap between cancer diagnosis and treatment with minimized separate comprehensions. In order to present an overview on the cancer-targeted nanotheranostics, we first describe their essential building blocks, including platforms, therapeutic agents and imaging agents, and then the recently rapidly developed multimodal theranostic systems. Finally we discuss the major challenges and the perspectives of future development of nanotheranostics toward clinical translations and personalized nanomedicine.Entities:
Keywords: imaging; nanomaterials; nanomedicine; theranostics; therapy
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27150247 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201600635
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Small ISSN: 1613-6810 Impact factor: 13.281