Khondakar K.R., Kaushik A.K. (eds.) Nanotechnology in Cancer Management: Precise Diagnostics Toward Personalized Health Care

Elsevier, 2021. — 245 p. — ISBN 978-0-12-818154-6.Nanotechnology in Cancer Management: Precise Diagnostics toward Personalized Health Care provides a well-focused and comprehensive overview of technologies involved in early stage cancer diagnostics via the detection of various cancer biomarkers, both in-vitro and in-vivo. The book briefly describes the advancement in cancer biomarker research relating to cancer diagnostics, covering fundamental aspects of various techniques, especially transduction methodologies, such as electrochemical, optical, magnetic, etc. In addition, it describes approaches on how to make options cost-effective, scalable for clinical application, and user-friendly. Advancements in technology related to device miniaturization, performance improvement and point-of-care applications round out discussions. Final sections cover future challenges, the prospects of various techniques, and how the introduction of nanotechnology in cancer management in a personalized manner is useful.Nanotechnology and its application: a review
Exploring biomarkers and diagnostics system for cancer management
Electrochemical detection: Cyclic voltammetry/differential pulse voltammetry/impedance spectroscopy
Fluorescence microscopy of organic dye, nanoparticles, quantum dots and spectroscopy
Raman spectroscopy/SERS based immunoassays for cancer diagnostics
Bioinformatics–computer programming
Magnetic-based sensing
Microfluidics for early-stage cancer detection
Scale-up of rapid diagnostics for clinical applications: device development for clinical applications (oral cancer)
Challenges and future prospects of nano-enabled cancer management