The tumor EPR effect for cancer drug delivery: Current status, limitations, and alternatives

R Sun, J Xiang, Q Zhou, Y Piao, J Tang, S Shao… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past three decades, the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect has
been considered the basis of tumor-targeted drug delivery. Various cancer nanomedicines …

Strategies to improve the EPR effect: A mechanistic perspective and clinical translation

M Ikeda-Imafuku, LLW Wang, D Rodrigues… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Many efforts have been made to achieve targeted delivery of anticancer drugs to enhance
their efficacy and to reduce their adverse effects. These efforts include the development of …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges and strategies in anti-cancer nanomedicine development: An industry perspective

JI Hare, T Lammers, MB Ashford, S Puri, G Storm… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2017 - Elsevier
Successfully translating anti-cancer nanomedicines from pre-clinical proof of concept to
demonstration of therapeutic value in the clinic is challenging. Having made significant …

Meta-analysis of nanoparticle delivery to tumors using a physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling and simulation approach

YH Cheng, C He, JE Riviere, NA Monteiro-Riviere… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Numerous studies have engineered nanoparticles with different physicochemical properties
to enhance the delivery efficiency to solid tumors, yet the mean and median delivery …

[HTML][HTML] The past, present, and future of breast cancer models for nanomedicine development

P Boix-Montesinos, PM Soriano-Teruel… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Even given recent advances in nanomedicine development of breast cancer treatment in
recent years and promising results in pre-clinical models, cancer nanomedicines often fail at …

[HTML][HTML] A nanoparticle-incorporated STING activator enhances antitumor immunity in PD-L1–insensitive models of triple-negative breast cancer

N Cheng, R Watkins-Schulz, RD Junkins, CN David… - JCI insight, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) has few therapeutic options, and alternative
approaches are urgently needed. Stimulator of IFN genes (STING) is becoming an exciting …

Chemokines in triple-negative breast cancer heterogeneity: new challenges for clinical implications

U Mehraj, U Mushtaq, MA Mir, A Saleem… - Seminars in Cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Tumor heterogeneity is a hallmark of cancer and one of the primary causes of resistance to
therapies. Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), which accounts for 15–20% of all breast …

Stromal barriers and strategies for the delivery of nanomedicine to desmoplastic tumors

L Miao, CM Lin, L Huang - Journal of Controlled Release, 2015 - Elsevier
Nanoparticle based delivery formulations have become a leading delivery strategy for
cancer imaging and therapy. The success of nanoparticle-based therapy relies heavily on …

The binding site barrier elicited by tumor-associated fibroblasts interferes disposition of nanoparticles in stroma-vessel type tumors

L Miao, JM Newby, CM Lin, L Zhang, F Xu, WY Kim… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The binding site barrier (BSB) was originally proposed to describe the binding behavior of
antibodies to cells peripheral to blood vessels, preventing their further penetration into the …

A high capacity polymeric micelle of paclitaxel: Implication of high dose drug therapy to safety and in vivo anti-cancer activity

Z He, X Wan, A Schulz, H Bludau, MA Dobrovolskaia… - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
The poor solubility of paclitaxel (PTX), the commercially most successful anticancer drug,
has long been hampering the development of suitable formulations. Here, we present …