Lipid Nanocarriers in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy

Download or read book Lipid Nanocarriers in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy written by Eliana Souto and published by Smithers Rapra. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lipid Nanocarriers in Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy fills a need for an accurate, coherent and authoritative introduction to lipid nanocarriers focusing in cancer therapy; both because of the growing popularity of these modern drug delivery systems and also because of the emergent need of dealing with cancer treatment. This handbook deals with lipid nanocarriers for targeted delivery to tumours of various organs and combination of these with other methods of treatment of cancer such as radiotherapy, diagnostic and imaging analysis. Lipid nanocarriers are also used for gene therapy for cancer.