Nanotechnology in Cancer Management: Precise Diagnostics Toward Personalized Health Care

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 detecting various cancer biomarkers, in-vitro and in-vivo. The book briefly describes the advancement is cancer biomarker research related to cancer diagnostics. It covers the fundamental aspects of various techniques especially transduction methodologies such as electrochemical, optical, magnetic etc. the advancements in selection methodologies using nanotechnology, electronics, etc, are also the focus of this book. It describes the approaches on how to make the various options cost-effective, scalable for clinical application, and user friendly as well as advancements in technology related to device miniaturization, performance improvement and point-of-care application also the part of this book. The future challenges and the prospects of the various techniques is also discussed and explains how the introduction of nanotechnology in cancer management in personalized manner becomes useful. Discusses nano-enabled sensing technology for rapid diagnostics targeted cancer needed for timely therapyIncludes smart sensing materials such as smart electro-active nanomaterials, sensitive transducers development, nano-enabled advanced imaging, miniaturized analytical system, and device integration and interfacing for point-of-care applicationDescribes each compartment involved in the development of an efficient cancer diagnostics system Focuses on fundamental and applied concepts of the technologies along with the exploring the related mechanisms proposed for diagnostics of cancerEnhances the fundamental understanding of the concepts and development of nanotechnology based analytical tools and novel techniques for early stage cancers diagnostics and its management INDICE: 1. Introduction: Background, diagnostics, cancer biomarkers, state-of-art 2. Electrochemical Detection: CV/DPV/Impedance 3. Fluorescence microscopy: Organic dye/nanoparticles/ quantum dots and spectroscopy 4. Raman spectrophotometer: SERS nanotags (Au/Ag), confocal Raman microscopy 5. Sequencing: DNA analysis 6. Bioinformatics: Computer programming 7. Magnetic: Magnetic based sensing 8. Lab on a chip: Microfluidics 9. Imaging: Electron microscopy (AFM/SEM/TEM): Shape and size based analysis 10. Scale up of rapid diagnostics for clinical application: Device development for clinical application 11. Challenges and future prospects of nano-enabled cancer management

• ISBN: 978-0-12-818154-6
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 462
• Fecha Publicación: 02/02/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés