Recent advances in nanoparticle-based photothermal therapy for breast cancer

SG Alamdari, M Amini, N Jalilzadeh… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women that is associated with
high mortality. Conventional treatments including surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy …

[HTML][HTML] Multifunctional phototheranostic nanomedicine for cancer imaging and treatment

D Gao, X Guo, X Zhang, S Chen, Y Wang, T Chen… - Materials Today Bio, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Retinoic acid-loaded dendritic polyglycerol-conjugated gold nanostars for targeted photothermal therapy in breast cancer stem cells

Y Pan, X Ma, C Liu, J Xing, S Zhou, B Parshad… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The existence of cancer stem cells (CSCs) poses a major obstacle for the success of current
cancer therapies, especially the fact that non-CSCs can spontaneously turn into CSCs …

Breast cancer stem cells: Biology and therapeutic implications

R Butti, VP Gunasekaran, TVS Kumar… - The international journal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Breast cancer remains to be a dreadful disease even with several advancements in
radiation and chemotherapies, owing to the drug resistance and tumor relapse caused by …

Emerging strategies in developing multifunctional nanomaterials for cancer nanotheranostics

MJY Ang, SY Chan, YY Goh, Z Luo, JW Lau… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cancer involves a collection of diseases with a common trait–dysregulation in cell
proliferation. At present, traditional therapeutic strategies against cancer have limitations in …

Photothermal Attenuation of Cancer Cell Stemness, Chemoresistance, and Migration Using CD44-Targeted MoS2 Nanosheets

J Liu, S Smith, C Wang - Nano letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cancer stem-like cells (CSCs) play key roles in chemoresistance, tumor metastasis, and
clinical relapse. However, current CSC inhibitors lack specificity, efficacy, and applicability to …

Gram-scale synthesis of highly biocompatible and intravenous injectable hafnium oxide nanocrystal with enhanced radiotherapy efficacy for cancer theranostic

Y Li, Y Qi, H Zhang, Z Xia, T Xie, W Li, D Zhong, H Zhu… - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Based on the ionizing radiation applied to the malignant tumor tissue, radiation therapy (RT)
is the frequently-used non-surgical approach for cancer treatment. Hafnium Oxide (HfO 2) …

A small-molecule self-assembled nanodrug for combination therapy of photothermal-differentiation-chemotherapy of breast cancer stem cells

X Xie, K Jiang, B Li, S Hou, H Tang, B Shao, Y Ping… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
The combination therapy with different treatment modalities has been widely applied in the
clinical applications of cancer treatment. However, it stills a considerable challenge to …

Nucleus-targeted nano delivery system eradicates cancer stem cells by combined thermotherapy and hypoxia-activated chemotherapy

H Li, W Yan, X Suo, H Peng, X Yang, Z Li, J Zhang… - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Many efforts have focused on the cancer stem cell (CSC) targeting nano delivery system,
however, the anticancer therapy efficacy is relative low due to the highly drug-resistance and …

[HTML][HTML] Calcium phosphate engineered photosynthetic microalgae to combat hypoxic-tumor by in-situ modulating hypoxia and cascade radio-phototherapy

D Zhong, W Li, S Hua, Y Qi, T Xie, Y Qiao, M Zhou - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rationale: Hypoxia is one of the crucial restrictions in cancer radiotherapy (RT), which leads
to the hypoxia-associated radioresistance of tumor cells and may result in the sharp decline …