Biomaterials for cancer therapeutics: Diagnosis, prevention and therapy

Cancer can affect people of all ages and in the developed world, one in three people will develop cancer during their lifetime. Numerous new potential therapeutics are being researched by many different institutions and biomaterials technology is now being developed to target, treat, and prevent cancer. This unique book discusses the role potential biomaterials have to treat this prevalent disease. The first part discusses the fundamentals of biomaterials for the diagnosis and prevention of cancer, while chapters in section two focus on vaccines, proteins, and polymers for cancer therapeutics. Part three reviews theranosis and drug delivery systems and the final section looks at therapeutics and cancer cell interactions.