title: Strategic workshops on cancer nanotechnology.
abstract: Nanotechnology offers the potential for new approaches to detecting, treating, and preventing cancer. To determine the current status of the cancer nanotechnology field and the optimal path forward, the National Cancer Institute's Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer held three strategic workshops, covering the areas of in vitro diagnostics and prevention, therapy and post-treatment, and in vivo diagnosis and imaging. At each of these meetings, a wide range of experts from academia, industry, the nonprofit sector, and the U.S. government discussed opportunities in the field of cancer nanotechnology and barriers to its implementation.
authors.affiliation: Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
authors.forename: Larry A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Nagahara
authors.forename: Jerry S H
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Linda K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Molnar
authors.forename: Nicholas J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Panaro
authors.forename: Dorothy
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Farrell
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ptak
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Alper
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Grodzinski
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*
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