Cancer Targeted Drug Delivery : An Elusive Dream - Bae, You Han.; Mrsny, Randall J.; Park, Kinam; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
A Time Travel Journey Through Cancer Therapies -- Nanotechnology for Cancer Treatment: Possibilities & Limitations -- Vascular Targeting Approaches to Treat Cancer -- Tumor Immunotherapy by Utilizing a Double-Edged Sword Chemokines -- Cancer Biology: Some Causes for a Variety of Different Diseases -- Cancer Stromal Targeting (CAST) Therapy and Tailored Antibody Drug Conjugate Therapy Depending on Nature of Tumor Stroma -- Cancer Cell Respiration: Hypoxia and pH in Solid Tumors -- Tumor Vasculature, EPR Effect, and Anticancer Nanomedicine: Connecting the Dots -- Pressure Gradients in Solid Tumors -- The ADAMs: New Therapeutic Targets for Cancer? -- Role of the Extracellular Matrix - Enzyme Activities and Metastasis -- The Role of Non-Cancerous Cells in Cancer: Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma as Model to Understand the Impact of Tumor Microenvironment on Epithelial Carcinogenesis -- Heterogeneity of Cancers and its Implication for Targeted Drug Delivery -- A Study of Cancer Heterogeneity: From Genetic Instability to Epigenetic Diversity in Colorectal Cancer -- Nanotherapeutics in Multidrug Resistance -- Stem Cells and Cancer -- Mechanisms of Metastasis -- Cancer-Specific Ligand/Receptor Interactions -- Targeting Drugs to Cancer: A Tough Journey to the Tumor Cell -- Long Circulation and Tumor Accumulation -- Convective and Diffusive Transport in Drug Delivery -- Intravital Real-Time Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy for the in Situ Evaluation of Nanocarriers -- The EPR effect in Cancer Therapy -- In Vitro 3-dimensional Cancer Culture Model -- Complex Transport Around Tumor: Need for Realistic In Vitro Tumor Transport Model -- The Missing Components Today and the New Treatments Tomorrow.
Keywords: Pharmaceutical technology; Pharmacology; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.