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Delivery technologies for cancer immunotherapy
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Immunotherapy has become a powerful clinical strategy for treating cancer. The number of immunotherapy drug approvals has been increasing, with numerous treatments in clinical and preclinical development. However, a key challenge in the broad implementation of immunotherapies for cancer remains the controlled modulation of the immune system, as these therapeutics have serious adverse effects including autoimmunity and nonspecific inflammation. Understanding how to increase the response rates to various classes of immunotherapy is key to improving efficacy and controlling these adverse effects. Advanced biomaterials and drug delivery systems, such as nanoparticles and the use of T cells to deliver therapies, could effectively harness immunotherapies and improve their potency while reducing toxic side effects. Here, we discuss these research advances, as well as the opportunities and challenges for integrating delivery technologies into cancer immunotherapy, and we critically analyse the outlook for these emerging areas. The rapid progress in cancer immuno therapy has highlighted the need for new delivery technologies. In this article, Langer, Mitchell and colleagues discuss how recent developments in drug delivery could enable new cancer immunotherapies and improve on existing ones, and examine the current delivery obstacles.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Riley, R. S., June, C. H., Langer, R., & Mitchell, M. J.
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
- Published
- 2019-01-08
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 175-196
- ISSN
- 1474-1776 (ISSN-L)
- 1474-1784
- OpenAlex
- W2909301717
- Cited by
- 2,607
- References
- 41
- FWCI
- 33.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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