Nanoparticle Drones to Target Lung Cancer with Radiosensitizers and Cannabinoids. CBIS - the future is now!
Nanomedicine, the application of nanotechnology to medicine, has opened a new, previously unimaginable world in cancer diagnosis and therapy. Today new multifunctional nanoplatforms or smart nanomaterials (nanoparticle drones) can be constructed and endowed with image contrast enhancement capabilities for techniques such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (1, 2) and can contain therapeutic payloads programmed for targeted delivery to disease sites (3). The vision of combining diagnostics and therapeutics, now being referred to as theranostics, was considered futuristic only a few years ago but is now clearly achievable—the future is almost now!
imageWilfred Ngwa1,2*, imageRajiv Kumar1,3, imageMichele Moreau1,2, imageRaymond Dabney4 and imageAllen Herman4
1Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
2University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States
3Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States
4Cannabis Science Inc., Irvine, CA, United States
