Multifunctional Theranostic Nanomedicines in Cancer

Multifunctional Theranostic Nanomedicines in Cancer focuses on new trends, applications, and the significance of novel multifunctional nanotheranostics in cancer imaging for diagnosis and treatment. Cancer nanotechnology offers new opportunities for cancer diagnosis and treatment. Multifunctional nanoparticles harboring various functions?including targeting, imaging, and therapy?have been intensively studied with the goal of overcoming the limitations of conventional cancer diagnosis and therapy. Thus theranostic nanomedicines have emerged in recent years to provide an efficient and safer alternative in cancer management. This book covers polymer-based therapies, lipid-based therapies, inorganic particle-based therapies, photo-related therapies, radiotherapies, chemotherapies, and surgeries. Multifunctional Theranostic Nanomedicines in Cancer offers an indispensable guide for researchers in academia, industry, and clinical settings; it is also ideal for postgraduate students; and formulation scientists working on cancer.

1. Nanoparticle-based theranostics in cancer 2. Multifunctional nanotheranostics for cancer diagnosis and treatments 3. Multifunctional micellar nanomedicine for cancer therapy 4. Multifunctional theranostic nanomedicine for photoacoustic imaging-guided combination tumor treatment 5. Multifunctional silica nanoparticles as a promising cancer theranostics 6. Multifunctional hypoxia imaging-guided tumor nanotheranostics 7. Blood-brain-barrier crossing nanotheranostics in brain cancer 8. Peptide-drug conjugates in targeted drug delivery to cancer 9. Recent advancement in photonanotheranostics for cancer treatment 10. Smart multifunctional nanosystem: Next generation drug delivery platform for drug resistant breast cancer 11. Stimulus-responsive gold nanotheranostic platforms for targeting the tumor microenvironment 12. Multifunctional gold nanostar conjugates for tumor imaging and combined photothermal and chemo-therapy in cancer 13. Nanotargeted radiopharmaceuticals for cancer theranostics 14. Nanoparticle-based radio immune therapy in cancer care 15. Image-guided biodistribution and pharmacokinetic studies of theranostics 16. Technological challenges of theranostics in oncology 17. Theranostic nanoparticles engineered for clinic and pharmaceutics 18. Multifunctional nanoparticles – cost versus benefit of adding targeting and imaging capabilities

Malay K. Das (MPharm, PhD) is a Professor of Pharmaceutics at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dibrugarh University, in India. His research interests include novel drug delivery systems, pharmaceutical nanotechnology, nanomedicine, and transdermal and targeted drug delivery systems. He has handled several major research projects sponsored by the DST, DBT, ICMR, UGC, and AICTE. Professor Das has been honored with the prestigious DBT-Biotechnology Overseas Associateship at the University of South Florida, Tampa, United States and the DST-UKIERI Research Award in collaboration with the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, King’s College, London, United Kingdom. He has several publications including peer-reviewed research and review articles in various international journals, as well as chapters in various books published by international publishers.

• Provides a comprehensive resource of recent scientific progress and novel applications of theranostic nanomedicines
• Discusses treatment options from a pharmaceutical sciences perspective
• Includes translational science and targeted CNS cancer treatment