A review on current nanomaterials and their drug conjugate for targeted breast cancer treatment

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy worldwide, especially among women, with substantial after-treatment effects. The survival rates of breast cancer have decreased over the years even with the existence of various therapeutic strategies, specifically, chemotherapy. Clinical drugs administere...

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Main Authors: Jinling, Joanna Lee, Saiful Yazan, Latifah, Che Abdullah, Che Azurahanim
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Language:English
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60716/
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author Jinling, Joanna Lee
Saiful Yazan, Latifah
Che Abdullah, Che Azurahanim
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description Breast cancer is the most common malignancy worldwide, especially among women, with substantial after-treatment effects. The survival rates of breast cancer have decreased over the years even with the existence of various therapeutic strategies, specifically, chemotherapy. Clinical drugs administered for breast cancer appear to be non-targeting to specific cancer sites leading to severe side effects and potentially harming healthy cells instead of just killing cancer cells. This leads to the need for designing a targeted drug delivery system. Nanomaterials, both organic and inorganic, are potential drug nanocarriers with the ability of targeting, imaging and tracking. Various types of nanomaterials have been actively researched together with their drug conjugate. In this review, we focus on selected nanomaterials, namely solid-lipid, liposomal, polymeric, magnetic nanoparticles, quantum dots, and carbon nanotubes and their drug conjugates, for breast cancer studies. Their advantages, disadvantages and previously conducted studies were highlighted.
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spelling upm-607162019-04-02T02:19:20Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60716/ A review on current nanomaterials and their drug conjugate for targeted breast cancer treatment Jinling, Joanna Lee Saiful Yazan, Latifah Che Abdullah, Che Azurahanim Breast cancer is the most common malignancy worldwide, especially among women, with substantial after-treatment effects. The survival rates of breast cancer have decreased over the years even with the existence of various therapeutic strategies, specifically, chemotherapy. Clinical drugs administered for breast cancer appear to be non-targeting to specific cancer sites leading to severe side effects and potentially harming healthy cells instead of just killing cancer cells. This leads to the need for designing a targeted drug delivery system. Nanomaterials, both organic and inorganic, are potential drug nanocarriers with the ability of targeting, imaging and tracking. Various types of nanomaterials have been actively researched together with their drug conjugate. In this review, we focus on selected nanomaterials, namely solid-lipid, liposomal, polymeric, magnetic nanoparticles, quantum dots, and carbon nanotubes and their drug conjugates, for breast cancer studies. Their advantages, disadvantages and previously conducted studies were highlighted. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60716/1/A%20review%20on%20current%20nanomaterials%20and%20their%20drug%20conjugate%20for%20targeted%20breast%20cancer%20treatment.pdf Jinling, Joanna Lee and Saiful Yazan, Latifah and Che Abdullah, Che Azurahanim (2017) A review on current nanomaterials and their drug conjugate for targeted breast cancer treatment. Journal of Nanomaterials, 12. 2373 - 2383. ISSN 1687-4110; ESSN: 1687-4129 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5376210/pdf/ijn-12-2373.pdf 10.2147/IJN.S127329
spellingShingle Jinling, Joanna Lee
Saiful Yazan, Latifah
Che Abdullah, Che Azurahanim
A review on current nanomaterials and their drug conjugate for targeted breast cancer treatment
title A review on current nanomaterials and their drug conjugate for targeted breast cancer treatment
title_full A review on current nanomaterials and their drug conjugate for targeted breast cancer treatment
title_fullStr A review on current nanomaterials and their drug conjugate for targeted breast cancer treatment
title_full_unstemmed A review on current nanomaterials and their drug conjugate for targeted breast cancer treatment
title_short A review on current nanomaterials and their drug conjugate for targeted breast cancer treatment
title_sort review on current nanomaterials and their drug conjugate for targeted breast cancer treatment
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