Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a modern and non-invasive form of therapy, used in the
treatment of non-oncological diseases as well as cancers of various types and locations. It is …

Cancer has been one of the major threats to the lives of human beings for centuries.(1)
Current cancer therapies mainly include surgery, chemotherapies, and radiotherapies …

Cancer accounted for 7.6 million deaths (around 13% of all deaths) worldwide in 2008.(1)
Almost 13 million cancer cases are newly diagnosed every year, and deaths are projected to …

In 2004, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an important report entitled
“Innovation/Stagnation: Challenge and Opportunity on the Critical Path to New Medical …

The biorelated degradability and clearance of siliceous nanomaterials have been
questioned worldwide, since they are crucial prerequisites for the successful translation in …

Tremendous interest in self‐assembly of peptides and proteins towards functional
nanomaterials has been inspired by naturally evolving self‐assembly in biological …

Malignant brain tumors, a heterogeneous group of primary and metastatic neoplasms in the
central nervous system (CNS), are notorious for their highly invasive and devastating …

Cancer, as one of the most life-threatening diseases, shows a high fatality rate around the
world. When improving the therapeutic efficacy of conventional cancer treatments …

Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging, which affords high imaging resolution owing to
deep tissue penetration of NIR photons, is an attractive imaging modality for both biomedical …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) in cancer treatment involves the uptake of a photosensitizer by
cancer tissue followed by photoirradiation. The use of nanoparticles as carriers of …