Advances in Nanomaterial-Mediated Photothermal Cancer Therapies: Toward Clinical Applications.

ABSTRACT: Photothermal therapy (PTT) has attracted extensive research attention as a noninvasive and selective treatment strategy for numerous cancers. PTT functions via photothermal effects induced by converting light energy into heat on near-infrared laser irradiation. Despite the great advances in PTT for cancer treatment, the photothermal therapeutics using laser devise only or non-specific small molecule PTT agents has been limited because of its low photothermal conversion efficiency, concerns about the biosafety of the photothermal agents, their low tumor accumulation, and a heat resistance of specific types of cancer. Using nanomaterials as PTT agents themselves, or for delivery of PTT agents, offers improved therapeutic outcomes with fewer side effects through enhanced photothermal conversi

SUBMITTER: Han HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8002224 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature