Gold nanoparticles are especially suited to thermal destruction of cancer due to their ease of
surface functionalization and photothermal heating ability. This chapter reviews the progress …

In recent years, there has been an unprecedented expansion in the field of nanomedicine
with the development of new nanoparticles for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer …

Chemotherapy has been widely applied in clinics. However, the therapeutic potential of
chemotherapy against cancer is seriously dissatisfactory due to the nonspecific drug …

Cancer is one of the most important health issues, which is the second leading cause of
death in the world. Conventional cancer therapy methods encounter with serious drawbacks …

Gold nanostructures possess unique characteristics that enable their use as contrast agents,
as therapeutic entities, and as scaffolds to adhere functional molecules, therapeutic cargo …

Cytokines are key components of the immune system and play pivotal roles in anticancer
immune response. Cytokines as either therapeutic agents or targets hold clinical promise for …

Abstract Background Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with unique physicochemical properties
have received a great deal of interest in the field of biological, chemical and biomedical …

In the past decade, mammalian cells have increasingly encountered gold nanoparticles
(GNPs), owing to the active development of nanomedicine. 1− 3 GNPs have been more and …

The development of photothermal agents (PTAs) with good stability, low toxicity, highly
targeting ability and photothermal conversion efficiency is an essential pre-requisite to near …

Most cancer deaths arise from metastases as a result of circulating tumor cells (CTCs)
spreading from the primary tumor to vital organs. Despite progress in cancer prognosis, the …