Modern medicine has been waging a war on cancer for nearly a century with no tangible
end in sight. Cancer treatments have significantly progressed, but the need to increase …

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have emerged as novel radiosensitizers owing to their high X-
ray absorption, synthetic versatility, and unique chemical, electronic and optical properties …

Oxidative stress-dependent inflammatory diseases represent a major concern for the
population's health worldwide. Biocompatible nanomaterials with enzymatic properties …

Radiotherapy is currently used in around 50% of cancer treatments and relies on the
deposition of energy directly into tumour tissue. Although it is generally effective, some of the …

Gold nanoparticles are emerging as promising agents for cancer therapy and are being
investigated as drug carriers, photothermal agents, contrast agents and radiosensitisers …

This review focuses on the radiosensitization strategies that use high-Z nanoparticles. It
does not establish an exhaustive list of the works in this field but rather propose constructive …

Gold nanoparticles have been conceived as a radiosensitizer in cancer radiation therapy,
but one of the important questions for primary drug screening is what size of gold …

Liposomes have been well established as an effective drug delivery system, due to
simplicity of their preparation and unique characteristics. However conventional liposomes …

The unique properties of nanomaterials, in particular gold nanoparticles (GNPs) have
applications for a wide range of biomedical applications. GNPs have been proposed as …

There has been growing interest in the use of nanomaterials for a range of biomedical
applications over the last number of years. In particular, gold nanoparticles (GNPs) possess …