The development and application of nanotechnology-related knowledge and tools in
modern medicine has been showing great potentials in elevating human's living standards …

The microenvironment characteristics of solid tumors, renowned as barriers that harshly
impeded many drug-delivery approaches, were precisely studied, investigated, categorized …

Biocompatible gold nanoparticles designed to absorb light at wavelengths of high tissue
transparency have been of particular interest for biomedical applications. The ability of such …

Plasmonic photothermal therapy (PPTT), a type of treatment involving the intravenous or
intratumoral injection to introduce gold nanoparticles to cancerous cells and the subsequent …

Photothermal therapy (PTT), in which nanoparticles embedded within tumors generate heat
in response to exogenously applied laser light, has been well documented as an …

With the unprecedented progresses of biomedical nanotechnology during the past few
decades, conventional drug delivery systems (DDSs) have been involved into smart DDSs …

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 …

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world, behind only cardiovascular
diseases, and is one of the most serious diseases threatening human health nowadays …

The emerging anti-tumor immunotherapy has made significant progress in clinical
application. However, single immunotherapy is not effective for all anti-tumor treatments …

Noninvasive techniques, such as breath tests (urea breath test), blood pressure
measurements using a sphygmomanometer and electrocardiography, were employed by a …