Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment by Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology – Impact On Cancer Diagnosis & Treatment: Nanotechnology has an immense potential to meet the challenging needs of ever increasing healthcare concerns with cancer at the forefront. Nanotechnology involves manipulating structures at nanoscale is an emerging new field. A team of scientists led by chemistry professor Joseph DeSimone, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (U.N.C.) has shown that the shape of these nanoparticles is much more important than size in expediting the penetration of drug in target human cells. In the passive form, this technology has been successfully used in products such as cosmetics and sunscreens and has the future implications in improved electronic equipments and better batteries etc. The application of nanotechnology has a huge potential in the medicine and healthcare sectors which ultimately provides tremendous benefits to society in future. Cancer is one of the major causes of mortality worldwide. The most com...