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Advanced nanotechnology: An arsenal to enhance immunotherapy in fighting cancer.
Cancer remains a major disease process with considerable healthcare and socioeconomic impact worldwide. Unfortunately, standard treatments using chemotherapy often do not effectively control cancer progression or prevent relapse. Over the past decades, the development of targeted therapies has substantially improved outcomes. Recently, immunotherapy has emerged as a new alternative for more effective cancer treatment and may even bring hope of a cure. Cancer immunotherapy functions by reinforcing a patient's immune defense system to fight the disease. Clinically, promising immunotherapy approaches have, however, been limited by unpredictable response and strong adverse effects. A drug delivery system (DDS) that effectively targets tumor and reduces drug exposure to normal tissue would mitigate these limitations. In this regard, nanotechnology has been intensively studied as a DDS for targeting tumors with various oncologic drugs. Several have resulted in improved treatment and outcome. Research has shown that nanoparticle drug delivery technologies can also be applied to immunotherapy. In this review, the current state of nanotechnology will be discussed. Because most cancer immunotherapies approved in recent years are protein drugs, this article will focus on a micellar nanocomplex (MNC) technology, a DDS platform especially suited for targeted delivery of these therapeutics to solid tumors.
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