CANCER

One obstacle when treating a cancer is the delivery of a toxic drug such that it hits the tumor and not healthy cells in the body. To achieve such delivery new non-toxic materials have to be developped, two examples of this is found inte following articles:

Embedded therapeutics for imaging and therapy

Synthesis of new carrier materials

The new materials are tested with the drug Doxorubicin for breast cancer therapy in the following three articles:

Tuning of drug release

Enhanced efficacy of drug

Drug carrier non-toxic to normal cells