Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy in Cancer Diagnosis, Prognosis and Monitoring.

ABSTRACT: As medicine continues to advance our understanding of and knowledge about the complex and multifactorial nature of cancer, new major technological challenges have emerged in the design of analytical methods capable of characterizing and assessing the dynamic heterogeneity of cancer for diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring, as required by precision medicine. With this aim, novel nanotechnological approaches have been pursued and developed for overcoming intrinsic and current limitations of conventional methods in terms of rapidity, sensitivity, multiplicity, non-invasive procedures and cost. Eminently, a special focus has been put on their implementation in liquid biopsy analysis. Among optical nanosensors, those based on surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) have been attracting tremendo

SUBMITTER: Guerrini L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6627759 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature