Recent Patents on Polymeric Nanosystems Applications for Anticancer Drug Delivery

MARÍA ESPERANZA RUIZ; MELISA GANTNER; ALAN TALEVI

Topics in Anti-Cancer Research

BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD

Lugar: Oak Park; Año: 2015; p. 524 - 601

Nanosized drug delivery systems might well be a fundamental tool to overcome some of the major challenges for future treatment of cancer, optimizing drug effectiveness while simultaneously reducing systemic side effects. This chapter is an update on recent patents on nanosystems applications to anticancer drug delivery; the chapter focuses on polymeric nanosystems (nanospheres, nanocapsules, hydrogel based banosystems, dendrimers and polymeric micelles).