CONTENTS:- 1. Cancer Nanotech 2. International to Treatment Technology 3. Endrocine-related Cancer: Polymer-drug Conjugates 4. New Horizons for Cancer Therapy 5. Ultrasensitive Drug Delivery Systems 6. Nanotechnology for Various Cancer Treatments 7. Nanotechnology in India 8. New Nemesis of Cancer 9. Design, Synthesis and Applications: Polymeric Nanoparticles 10. Multi-Functional Nanoparticles 11. Elementary-particles in Cancer Therapy 12. Nanotechnology in Cancer Research
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Even after a great a number of medicines and equipments discovered so far, cancer continues to torment humanity as the second leading cause of death with 10.9 million newly diagnosed cases world-wide in the year 2005 alone. Therefore, there is still a strong need for a paradigm shift in the approach to cancer diagnosis and therapy. The advent of nanotechnological revolution offers an opportunity to achieve this paradigm shift. Since the biological processes in general and those that lead to cancer in particular occur at the nanoscale, there is a great opportunity for nanotechnologists to treat cancer at an as early stage as, possible. Several innovative nanoscale constructs have been demonstrated to radically change cancer therapy with capabilities to deliver large doses of chemotherapeutic agents or therapeutic genes into malignant cells while sparing healthy cells. They have also shown great promise in enabling rapid and sensitive detection of single cancer cells and cancer-related molecules. Reports of these investigations are being published in a very broad range of journals spanning several traditional disciplines. It is becoming difficult for researchers to gather all the available information on 'Cancer Nanotechnology'.
