cancer in nanotechnology therapy use

cancer in nanotechnology therapy use

Nanotechnology has the potential to have a revolutionary impact on cancer diagnosis and therapy.

Nanotechnology offers the unprecedented and paradigm-changing opportunity to study and interact with normal and cancer cells in real time, at the molecular and cellular scales, and during the earliest stages of the cancer process.

Through the concerted development of nanoscale devices or devices with nanoscale materials and components, it will be possible to facilitate integration within the existing cancer research infrastructure.

Nanoscale science is going to bring enabling technologies for:

Imaging agents and diagnostics that will allow clinicians to detect cancer in its earliest stages;
• Systems that will provide real-time assessments of therapeutic and surgical efficacy for accelerating clinical translation;
• Multifunctional, targeted devices capable of bypassing biological barriers to deliver multiple therapeutic agents directly to cancer cells and those tissues in the microenvironment that play a critical role in the growth and metastasis of cancer;
• Agents that can monitor predictive molecular changes and prevent precancerous cells from becoming malignant;
• Novel methods to manage the symptoms of cancer that adversely impact quality of life;
• Research tools that will enable rapid identification of new targets for clinical development and predict drug resistance.