New nanotechnology approaches for treatment and palliative care of cancer

Abstract

Cancer is one of the major reasons which leads to worldwide mortality and this proportion is increasing day by day, hence advanced better treatments are required to develop. Nanotechnology, or the science of the very small, has immense potential in healthcare, from more effective drug delivery to more rapid and sensitive illness diagnosis. Traditional cancer treatments run the risk of harming healthy tissues while attempting to destroy malignant cells. By controlling medications to selectively target tumor cells, nanotechnology ameliorate chemotherapy and decreases its side effects. The US Food and Drug Administration has already approved the first generation of cancer treatments delivered by nanoparticles (FDA). The application of nanotechnology to cancer detection and medicine delivery has received a lot of attention. It can detect the chemical which relates to cancer quickly and sensitively, allowing scientists to detect molecular changes in a small fraction of cells. Nanotechnology has the potential or we can say it has an innovative approach to develop effective medicinal treatments. Cancer detection, treatment, drug administration, imaging and diagnostic techniques, and immunotherapy will all be discussed in this review paper.

This article is a part of Special Issue "Advances in the field of Nanomedicine"

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