Molecular Medicines for Cancer

Molecular Medicines for Cancer: Concepts and Applications of Nanotechnology gives an account of molecular therapeutics in cancer relating to advancements of nanotechnology. It provides a description of the multidisciplinary field of molecular medicines and its targeted delivery to cancer using nanotechnology.

Section I: Nanotechnology-Based Approaches to Target Cancer 1. Nanomedicines for Cancer [Jiasheng Tu, Birendra Chaurasiya, and Yanan Li] 2. Effect of Nanocarrier Size/Surface on Molecular Targeting in Cancer [Eupa Ray, Ankur Sharma, Kalpesh Vaghasiya, and Rahul Kumar Verma] 3. Nanocarrier Systems for Anticancer Drug Delivery at the Subcellular Level [Reza Mahjub and Shyh-Dar Li] 4. Chemo-Resistance Reversal Using Nanomedicines [Can Sarisozen, Jiayi Pan, and Vladimir P. Torchilin] 5. Multifunctional Dendrimers as Cancer Nanomedicines: Peptide-Based Targeting [Chie Kojima] 6. Targeting the Tumor Microenvironment [Andrew Cannon, Suprit Gupta, Rakesh Bhatia, Christopher Thompson, Brad Hall, Surinder K. Batra, and Sushil Kumar] 7. Novel Nanoparticulate Drug Delivery Systems for Active Ingredients of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Cancer Therapy [Meiwan Chen and Zhaopei Guo] Section II: Imaging Technologies in Cancer 8. Noninvasive Imaging in Clinical Oncology: A Testimony of Current Modalities and a Glimpse into the Future [Aniketh Bishnu, Abhilash Deo, Ajit Dhadve, Bhushan Thakur, Souvik Mukherjee, and Pritha Ray] 9. Multifunctional Nanocarriers as Theranostic Systems for Targeting Cancer [Gaurav Pandey, Rashmi Chaudhari, Vinod Kumar Gupta, and Abhijeet Joshi] 10. Emerging Nanotechnologies for Cancer Immunodiagnosis and Cancer Immunotherapies [Amy M. Wen, Nicole F. Steinmetz, and Sourabh Shukla] Section III: Oligonucleotides and Gene-Based Therapies 11. Nucleic Acid Nanotherapeutics [Siddharth Jhunjhunwala] 12. Long Non-Coding RNA and Cancer [Mateja M. Jelen and Damjan Glavac] 13. miRNA Therapeutics to Target Multiple Molecular Pathways: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Prospects [Lihui Zhu and Guofeng Cheng] 14. Alliance of Lipids with siRNA: Opportunities and Challenges for RNAi Therapy [Anu Puri, Mathias Viard, Paul Zakrevsky, Lorena Parlea, Krishna Pal Singh, and Bruce A. Shapiro] 15. Lipid Nanocarriers for RNAi-Based Cancer Therapy [Ranganayaki Muralidharan, Anish Babu, Narsireddy Amreddy, Janani Panneerselvam, Meghna Mehta, Anupama Munshi, and Rajagopal Ramesh] 16. Advancements in Polymeric Systems for Nucleic Acid Delivery [Vinayak Sadashiv Mharugde, Sudeep Pukale, Saurabh Sharma, Anupama Mittal, and Deepak Chitkara] 17. Self-Assembling Programmable RNA Nanoparticles: From Design and Characterization to Use as an siRNA Delivery Platform [Brandon Roark, Morgan Chandler, Faye Walker, Lucia Milanova, Viktor Viglasky, Martin Panigaj, and Kirill A. Afonin] 18. DNA Repair and Epigenetics in Cancer [Loredana Zocchi and Claudia A. Benavente] 19. Genomic Engineering Utilizing the CRISPR/Cas System and Its Application in Cancer [Amit Kumar Chaudhary, Rajan Sharma Bhattarai, Chalet Tan, Channabasavaiah B. Gurumurthy, and Ram I. Mahato]