TY - CHAP
T1 - Multifunctional tumor-targeted nanoparticles for lung cancer
AU - Kuroda, Shinji
AU - Yokoyama, Tomohisa
AU - Tam, Justina O.
AU - Scott, Ailing W.
AU - Leo Ma, Li
AU - Shanker, Manish
AU - Jin, Jiankang
AU - Goerlich, Corbin
AU - Willcutts, David
AU - Roth, Jack A.
AU - Sokolov, Konstantin
AU - Johnston, Keith P.
AU - Ramesh, Rajagopal
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012/7/31
Y1 - 2012/7/31
N2 - Lung cancer is a major health problem in the United States. Despite the development of molecular-targeting agents such as epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors and advances made in conventional chemoradiotherapy and surgical therapy, the overall five-year survival rate of lung cancer patients remains poor and is less than 15%. Recently, in an attempt to improve diagnosis and therapy, novel technologies such as nanotechnology have emerged for application in medicine. One major goal of nanomedicine is to develop multifunctional nanoparticles that can be applied for diagnosis and imaging of cancer as well as therapy for cancer. As a result, a number of nanoparticle agents of various compositions, sizes, and shapes are being developed. A majority of the nanoparticles, however, are in preclinical studies, and only a few of them have advanced to early clinical testing. Efforts in several laboratories, including our own laboratory, are in developing tumor-targeted multifunctional metal-iron-oxide-based nanoparticles for imaging and therapy of lung cancer. In this article, we will discuss various nanomaterial-based nanoparticles, including our own tumor-targeted multifunctional nanoparticles that are being developed for lung cancer. Readers are encouraged to review additional literature to obtain more information on nanomaterials and their application in nanomedicine and cancer therapy.
AB - Lung cancer is a major health problem in the United States. Despite the development of molecular-targeting agents such as epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors and advances made in conventional chemoradiotherapy and surgical therapy, the overall five-year survival rate of lung cancer patients remains poor and is less than 15%. Recently, in an attempt to improve diagnosis and therapy, novel technologies such as nanotechnology have emerged for application in medicine. One major goal of nanomedicine is to develop multifunctional nanoparticles that can be applied for diagnosis and imaging of cancer as well as therapy for cancer. As a result, a number of nanoparticle agents of various compositions, sizes, and shapes are being developed. A majority of the nanoparticles, however, are in preclinical studies, and only a few of them have advanced to early clinical testing. Efforts in several laboratories, including our own laboratory, are in developing tumor-targeted multifunctional metal-iron-oxide-based nanoparticles for imaging and therapy of lung cancer. In this article, we will discuss various nanomaterial-based nanoparticles, including our own tumor-targeted multifunctional nanoparticles that are being developed for lung cancer. Readers are encouraged to review additional literature to obtain more information on nanomaterials and their application in nanomedicine and cancer therapy.
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U2 - 10.4032/9789814364140
DO - 10.4032/9789814364140
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84881682361
SN - 9789814316484
SP - 15
EP - 44
BT - Pulmonary Nanomedicine
PB - Pan Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd.
ER -