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Specific targeting cancer cells with nanoparticles and drug delivery in cancer therapy

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Details of the nano-based therapeutics and diagnostics strategies, and the potential use of nanomedicines in cancer drug delivery and cancer therapy are discussed.
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This article is published in Seminars in Cancer Biology.The article was published on 2021-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 149 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nanocarriers & Targeted therapy.

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Nanomaterials for cancer therapy: current progress and perspectives.

TL;DR: Nanomaterials are materials in the nanorange 1-100nm which possess unique optical, magnetic, and electrical properties as discussed by the authors, and they have been modified for a wide range of cancer therapies to overcome toxicity and lack of specificity.
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Biodegradable Polymeric Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery to Solid Tumors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the use of polymeric nanoparticles as drug delivery systems of anticancer compounds, their physico-chemical properties and their ability to be efficiently localized in specific tumor tissues have been described.
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Aptamers in biomedicine: selection strategies and recent advances

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Nanoparticles in Clinical Translation for Cancer Therapy

TL;DR: This review enumerates various types of nanoparticles that have entered clinical trials for cancer treatment and the obstacles in the journey of nanodrug from clinic to market.
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