Advance in Research on Carbon Nanotubes as Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agents for Tumor

Carbon nanotubes have attracted much attention due to their extraordinary structures and properties and have been investigated by many researchers in biomedical application recently. This report provides an overview of current researches of carbon nanotubes on the application in biomedicine, including early tumor diagnosis and therapy, and the features and the perspective of these researches and application are also summarized.