2D Functional Nanomaterials

52D Nanomaterials for Cancer Therapy

Naresh Kuthala

National Tsing Hua University, Department of Chemistry, No. 101, Section 2, Guangfu Road, East District, Hsinchu, 300044, Taiwan ROC

5.1 Introduction

Since decades, conventional treatment modalities such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy (RT) have been implemented to cancer eradication [1–7]. All these modalities with combined or standalone approaches resulted in the poor prognosis of this deadly disease and side effects due to (i) highly energetic electromagnetic radiations results in the major side effects and healthy tissue damage and (ii) conventional diagnosis methods need vast amounts of imaging agents injected into patients [8, 9]. Hence, these higher doses of conventional ...