Novel Materials for Cancer Diagnostics and Treatment
A special issue of Journal of Functional Biomaterials (ISSN 2079-4983). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials for Cancer Therapies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 1907
Special Issue Editors
Interests: control, design and synthesis of nanomaterials; nanomedicine; nanotoxicology
Interests: cancer nanomedicine; infant respiratory diseases—mainly bronchopulmonary dysplasia; drug delivery systems; preclinical imaging (stronger focus on optical imaging); in vitro toxicology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases in the world today, posing a great threat to human life and health. Traditional treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy are key strategies for treating solid tumors, but these methods have limitations, including unavoidable side effects and difficulty in eradicating tumors. Clinical medicine urgently needs to develop novel treatment models to improve the efficiency of cancer treatment and relieve patients' suffering.
Fortunately, the properties of engineered nanomaterials can be precisely tuned by controlling their size, shape, synthesis conditions, and functionalization. Recently, engineered nanomaterial-based nanotheranostics have received widespread attention in the field of nanomedicine in applications such as drug delivery, sonodynamic therapy (SDT), photothermal therapy (PTT), and photodynamic therapy (PDT). However, there are still challenges such as unclear mechanism of action, low targeting efficiency, and poor biocompatibility. Therefore, the development of new low-toxicity nanotargeted drugs has become an urgent need.
This Special Issue (‘Novel Materials for Cancer Diagnostics and Treatment’) seeks to publish creative works that help to improve this situation. These studies should focus on the scope of the rational design of nanomaterials, bioimaging, targeted delivery drug systems, and non-invasive or minimally invasive treatment methods for cancer.
We look forward to receiving your submissions and working with you.
Dr. Shunhao Wang
Dr. Bella Manshian
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- novel nanomaterials for biomedical applications
- nanocarriers
- precision cancer imaging
- targeted therapy
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