Alliance with EPR Effect: Combined Strategies to Improve the EPR Effect in the Tumor Microenvironment.

ABSTRACT: The use of nanomedicine for cancer treatment takes advantage of its preferential accumulation in tumors owing to the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect. The development of cancer nanomedicine has promised highly effective treatment options unprecedented by standard therapeutics. However, the therapeutic efficacy of passively targeted nanomedicine is not always satisfactory because it is largely influenced by the heterogeneity of the intensity of the EPR effect exhibited within a tumor, at different stages of a tumor, and among individual tumors. In addition, limited data on EPR effectiveness in human hinders further clinical translation of nanomedicine. This unsatisfactory therapeutic outcome in mice and humans necessitates novel approaches to improve the EPR effect. This rev

SUBMITTER: Park J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6857053 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature