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Chapter 9 Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies for Photon Radiation Enhanced Cancer Treatment

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Nanotechnology plays an increasingly important role in the diagnostics, prognostics, theranostic and management of targeted cancer treatments. Radiotherapy is a golden standard for cancer treatment: it requires high accuracy in delivering treatment to cancer patients to reduce toxicity to surrounding tissues and relies on both adequate imaging technologies and precise treatment dose calculations. Since the positive outcome of cancer treatment depends on a proper radiation dose delivery to the target, theoretical dose planning for each patient verified by experimental dose assessment is absolutely necessary. Introduction of the innovative nanotechnologies requires new improved dose delivery concepts that relay on utilization of new nanoscale materials. Materials on the nanoscale such as quantum dots, metal nanoparticles, combined core-shell nanoparticles, drug carriers provide many unique properties and are emerging with promising applications for their implementation in the development of the new cancer treatment strategies.

A quantum physical approach on how nanotechnology and nanomaterials are contributing to the improvement of cancer treatment and monitoring including some development tendencies of nanomaterials for radiation detection and imaging are discussed in this paper with the aim of providing some insights and ideas on future development of photon radiation based nanomedical applications for cancer treatment.

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    Diana Adliene

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    Maura Cesaria

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Adliene, D. (2018). Chapter 9 Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies for Photon Radiation Enhanced Cancer Treatment. In: Di Bartolo, B., Silvestri, L., Cesaria, M., Collins, J. (eds) Quantum Nano-Photonics. NATO 2017. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1544-5_9

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