[HTML][HTML] Cancer chemotherapy and beyond: Current status, drug candidates, associated risks and progress in targeted therapeutics

U Anand, A Dey, AKS Chandel, R Sanyal, A Mishra… - Genes & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer is an abnormal state of cells where they undergo uncontrolled proliferation and
produce aggressive malignancies that causes millions of deaths every year. With the new …

Cancers make their own luck: theories of cancer origins

A Jassim, EP Rahrmann, BD Simons… - Nature reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer has been a leading cause of death for decades. This dismal statistic has increased
efforts to prevent the disease or to detect it early, when treatment is less invasive, relatively …

Biomolecular condensates and cancer

A Boija, IA Klein, RA Young - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Malignant transformation is characterized by dysregulation of diverse cellular processes that
have been the subject of detailed genetic, biochemical, and structural studies, but only …

Synthetic lethality as an engine for cancer drug target discovery

A Huang, LA Garraway, A Ashworth… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
The first wave of genetically targeted therapies for cancer focused on drugging gene
products that are recurrently mutated in specific cancer types. However, mutational analysis …

Small‐molecule prodrug nanoassemblies: an emerging nanoplatform for anticancer drug delivery

G Li, B Sun, Y Li, C Luo, Z He, J Sun - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The antitumor efficiency and clinical translation of traditional nanomedicines is mainly
restricted by low drug loading, complex preparation technology, and potential toxicity …

Multi‐functional liposome: a powerful theranostic nano‐platform enhancing photodynamic therapy

X Cheng, J Gao, Y Ding, Y Lu, Q Wei, D Cui… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although photodynamic therapy (PDT) has promising advantages in almost non‐invasion,
low drug resistance, and low dark toxicity, it still suffers from limitations in the lipophilic …

Multifunctional MnO2 nanoparticles for tumor microenvironment modulation and cancer therapy

G Yang, J Ji, Z Liu - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tumor microenvironment (TME) is generally featured by low pH values, high glutathione
(GSH) concentrations, overproduced hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), and severe hypoxia …

Urea derivatives in modern drug discovery and medicinal chemistry

AK Ghosh, M Brindisi - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
The urea functionality is inherent to numerous bioactive compounds, including a variety of
clinically approved therapies. Urea containing compounds are increasingly used in …

Recent advances in augmenting Fenton chemistry of nanoplatforms for enhanced chemodynamic therapy

SL Li, X Chu, HL Dong, HY Hou, Y Liu - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The past few years have witnessed the rise of chemodynamic therapy (CDT) as an emerging
strategy for malignant tumors suppression. Nanoplatform-based CDT has great potential …

[HTML][HTML] Pure drug nano-assemblies: A facile carrier-free nanoplatform for efficient cancer therapy

S Fu, G Li, W Zang, X Zhou, K Shi, Y Zhai - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanoparticulate drug delivery systems (Nano-DDSs) have emerged as possible solution to
the obstacles of anticancer drug delivery. However, the clinical outcomes and translation are …