Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8409518 Drug Discovery Today 2018 13 Pages PDF
Abstract
Nanomedicines can be multifunctional drug delivery agents for cancer therapies. However, they have faced several challenges in clinical trials owing to poor targeting ability, insufficient tumor penetration, difficulty in synthesis and scale up, and limited understanding of interactions between a tumor and nanoparticles. In this regard, tumor muticomponent targeting drug delivery systems are a rational approach for developing tumor-site-specific therapeutics. One of the goals is to arrive at a ready-to-configure, combinatorial, reagent-free click-chemistry-based tumor multicomponent targeting nanoparticle library. The nanoparticles can be co-loaded with drugs, genes and imaging agents, surface decorated with varying targeting ligands that can home to varying tumors and/or tumor multicomponents. This library of nanocarriers could be utilized for early tumor diagnosis and therapy based on individual patient needs for personalized medicine, with a high degree of success in the clinic.
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