Advancements on drugs delivery: interesting review (and with drugs I meant medicine!)

[Maxone73]

A review on advancements in the application of starch-based nanomaterials in biomedicine: Precision drug delivery and cancer therapy, just one of the many delivery strategies that are being developed

sometimes I forget that we have plenty of chemotherapeutics, also new ones that can diversify our strategy and attack cancer even when it develops resistance (tested in vivo and in vitro), but the problem is often the delivery...the more precise we can make it, the more we will hit the target effectively, the less quantities will be needed, the less AEs and our general health and QoL will thank us!

sciencedirect.com/science/a...

[traxcavator]

It continues to baffle me that the oncologists continue to refuse to use an old, very simple means of delivering active agents to the tumor: That is a syringe. (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/292...

I find the interventional radiologists to be very much the opposite. They know they can put a needle anywhere in the body they want using fusion imaging, etc.

John

[Maxone73 in reply to traxcavator]

Almost…bone metastasis are quite impossible to treat as you mentioned. For soft tissue metastasis it’s easier and there are products that are being tested intra-tumorally. But also in that case there are spots that you simply cannot reach with a needle