Cancer nanomedicine: progress, challenges and opportunities

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The intrinsic limits of conventional cancer therapies prompted the development and application of various nanotechnologies for more effective and safer cancer treatment, herein referred to as cancer nanomedicine. Considerable technological success has been achieved in this field, but the main obstacles to nanomedicine becoming a

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Title: Nature Reviews Cancer

Abbreviated Title: Nat Rev Cancer

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISSN (Print): 1474-175X

ISSN (Electronic): 1474-1768

Publication date Created: November 11 2016

Publication date (Print): November 11 2016

Volume: 17

Issue: 1

Pages: 20-37

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DOI: 10.1038/nrc.2016.108

PMC ID: 5575742

PubMed ID: 27834398

SO-VID: 814515a3-8a53-47a8-b286-5d0d45c57eb9

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