Nature Communications (May 2021)

Systemic metastasis-targeted nanotherapeutic reinforces tumor surgical resection and chemotherapy

  • Minjun Xu,
  • Kaili Hu,
  • Yipu Liu,
  • Yukun Huang,
  • Shanshan Liu,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Dayuan Wang,
  • Songlei Zhou,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Ni Mei,
  • Huiping Lu,
  • Fengan Li,
  • Xiaoling Gao,
  • Jun Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23466-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Failure of conventional clinical therapies such as tumor resection and chemotherapy are mainly due to the ineffective control of tumor metastasis. Here, the authors show that a systemic metastasis-targeted nanotherapeutic may offer a powerful adjunct therapy for suppressing tumor metastasis.