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Nanomedicine therapeutic approaches to overcome cancer drug resistance
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Nanomedicine is an emerging form of therapy that focuses on alternative drug delivery and improvement of the treatment efficacy while reducing detrimental side effects to normal tissues. Cancer drug resistance is a complicated process that involves multiple mechanisms. Here we discuss the major forms of drug resistance and the new possibilities that nanomedicines offer to overcome these treatment obstacles. Novel nanomedicines that have a high ability for flexible, fast drug design and production based on tumor genetic profiles can be created making drug selection for personal patient treatment much more intensive and effective. This review aims to demonstrate the advantage of the young medical science field, nanomedicine, for overcoming cancer drug resistance. With the advanced design and alternative mechanisms of drug delivery known for different nanodrugs including liposomes, polymer conjugates, micelles, dendrimers, carbon-based, and metallic nanoparticles, overcoming various forms of multi-drug resistance looks promising and opens new horizons for cancer treatment.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Markman, J. L., Rekechenetskiy, A., Holler, E., & Ljubimova, J. Y.
- Affiliations
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ljubimova, Julia Y.
- Venue
- Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-11
- Volume
- 65
- Issue
- 13-14
- Pages
- 1866-1879
- ISSN
- 0169-409X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5812459
- OpenAlex
- W2086374939
- Semantic Scholar
- 45ee9c859bb1f5d84491499a8da3d69d2e4c8976
- Cited by
- 733
- References
- 156
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 44 · 2024: 56 · 2023: 50 · 2022: 66 · 2021: 63 · 2020: 68 · 2019: 73 · 2018: 66 · 2017: 67 · 2016: 75 · 2015: 59 · 2014: 22
- FWCI
- 3.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Cancer Institute (R01CA188743, R01CA123495, R01CA136841, U01CA151815)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Biomaterials › Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
- Keywords
- nanomedicine, chemoresistance, drug delivery, multidrug resistance, liposomes, polymer conjugates, micelles, dendrimers, carbon nanoparticles, metal nanoparticles, precision oncology, tumor genomic profiling
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Antineoplastic Agents, Clinical Trials as Topic, Drug Carriers, Humans, Neoplasms, Neoplastic Stem Cells, Drug Design, Drug Resistance, Multiple, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, Cell Line, Tumor, Nanomedicine, Nanoparticles, Tumor Microenvironment
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