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Novel delivery strategies for glioblastoma.


ABSTRACT: Brain tumors--particularly glioblastoma multiforme--pose an important public health problem in the United States. Despite surgical and medical advances, the prognosis for patients with malignant gliomas remains grim: current therapy is insufficient with nearly universal recurrence. A major reason for this failure is the difficulty of delivering therapeutic agents to the brain: better delivery approaches are needed to improve treatment. In this article, we summarize recent progress in drug delivery to the brain, with an emphasis on convection-enhanced delivery of nanocarriers. We examine the potential of new delivery methods to permit novel drug- and gene-based therapies that target brain cancer stem cells and discuss the use of nanomaterials for imaging of tumors and drug delivery.

SUBMITTER: Zhou J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3269656 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Novel delivery strategies for glioblastoma.

Zhou Jiangbing J   Atsina Kofi-Buaku KB   Himes Benjamin T BT   Strohbehn Garth W GW   Saltzman W Mark WM  

Cancer journal (Sudbury, Mass.) 20120101 1


Brain tumors--particularly glioblastoma multiforme--pose an important public health problem in the United States. Despite surgical and medical advances, the prognosis for patients with malignant gliomas remains grim: current therapy is insufficient with nearly universal recurrence. A major reason for this failure is the difficulty of delivering therapeutic agents to the brain: better delivery approaches are needed to improve treatment. In this article, we summarize recent progress in drug delive  ...[more]

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