Abstract
Breast cancer (BC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in American women and more than 90% of BC-related death is caused by metastatic BC (MBC). This review stresses the limited success of traditional therapies as well as the use of nanomedicine for treating MBC. Understanding the biological barriers of MBC that nanoparticle in vivo trafficking must overcome could provide valuable new insights for translating nanomedicine from the bench side to the bedside. A view about nanomedicine applied in BC therapy has been summarized with their present status, which is gaining attention in the clinically-applied landscape. The progressions of drug/gene delivery systems, especially the status of their preclinical or clinical trials, are also discussed. Here we highlight that the treatment of metastasis, in addition to the extensively described inhibition of primary tumor growth, is an indispensable requirement for nanomedicine. Along with more innovations in material chemistry and more progressions in biology, nanomedicine will constantly supply more exciting new approaches for targeted drug/gene delivery against MBC.
Document Type
Review
Publication Date
5-24-2018
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8060361
Funding Information
This work was supported in part by a Research Scholar Grant (RGS-15-026-01-CSM) from the American Cancer Society to C.Y. and a research grant from Elsa U. Pardee Foundation to Z.W.
Repository Citation
Li, Yunfei; Humphries, Brock; Yang, Chengfeng; and Wang, Zhishan, "Nanoparticle-Mediated Therapeutic Agent Delivery for Treating Metastatic Breast Cancer—Challenges and Opportunities" (2018). Toxicology and Cancer Biology Faculty Publications. 72.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/toxicology_facpub/72
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Notes/Citation Information
Published in Nanomaterials, v. 8, issue 6, 361, p. 1-18.
© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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