(Nano) platforms in breast cancer therapy: drug/gene delivery, advanced nanocarriers and immunotherapy

M Ashrafizadeh, A Zarrabi, A Bigham… - Medicinal Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Breast cancer is the most malignant tumor in women, and there is no absolute cure for it.
Although treatment modalities including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy are …

Threatening cancer with nanoparticle aided combination oncotherapy

S Rawal, MM Patel - Journal of controlled release, 2019 - Elsevier
Employing combination therapy has become obligatory in cancer cases exhibiting high
tumor load, chemoresistant tumor population, and advanced disease stages. Realization of …

Chitosan-based nanoparticle co-delivery of docetaxel and curcumin ameliorates anti-tumor chemoimmunotherapy in lung cancer

X Zhu, Z Yu, L Feng, L Deng, Z Fang, Z Liu, Y Li… - Carbohydrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
The application of traditional chemotherapy drugs for lung cancer has obvious limitations,
such as toxic side effects, uncontrolled drug-release, poor bioavailability, and drug …

[HTML][HTML] Lipid-core nanoparticles: Classification, preparation methods, routes of administration and recent advances in cancer treatment

P Graván, A Aguilera-Garrido, JA Marchal… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanotechnological drug delivery platforms represent a new paradigm for cancer
therapeutics as they improve the pharmacokinetic profile and distribution of …

Exosome-mediated delivery of RNA and DNA for gene therapy

R Munagala, F Aqil, J Jeyabalan, R Kandimalla… - Cancer letters, 2021 - Elsevier
Gene therapy promises to revolutionize biomedicine and personalized medicine by
modulating or compensating the expression of abnormal genes. The biggest obstacle for …

Solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) and nanostructured lipid carriers (NLCs) as food-grade nanovehicles for hydrophobic nutraceuticals or bioactives

CH Tang, HL Chen, JR Dong - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Although solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) and nanostructured lipid carriers (NLCs) have
been successfully used as drug delivery systems for about 30 years, the usage of these …

Docetaxel: An update on its molecular mechanisms, therapeutic trajectory and nanotechnology in the treatment of breast, lung and prostate cancer

M Imran, S Saleem, A Chaudhuri, J Ali… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Amongst the various microtubule-targeting agents, Docetaxel (DTX) has gained immense
attention in cancer chemotherapy due to its good therapeutic index. DTX belongs to the …

[HTML][HTML] Solid lipid nanoparticles: multitasking nano-carriers for cancer treatment

J German-Cortés, M Vilar-Hernández, D Rafael… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Despite all the advances seen in recent years, the severe adverse effects and low specificity
of conventional chemotherapy are still challenging problems regarding cancer treatment …

Preventive effect of curcumin against chemotherapy-induced side-effects

Z Liu, P Huang, S Law, H Tian, W Leung… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Cancer is still a severe threat to the health of people worldwide. Chemotherapy is one of
main therapeutic approaches to combat cancer. However, chemotherapy only has a limited …

Targeting strategies for the combination treatment of cancer using drug delivery systems

J Kydd, R Jadia, P Velpurisiva, A Gad, S Paliwal, P Rai - Pharmaceutics, 2017 - mdpi.com
Cancer cells have characteristics of acquired and intrinsic resistances to chemotherapy
treatment—due to the hostile tumor microenvironment—that create a significant challenge …