title: The promise of nanotechnology for solving clinical problems in breast cancer.
abstract: Approaches for breast cancer treatment are invasive, disfiguring, have significant side-effects, and are not always curative. Nanotechnology is an emerging area which is focused on engineering of materials <100 × 10(-9) m. There is significant promise for advancing nanotechnology to improve breast cancer diagnosis and treatment including non-invasive therapy, monitoring response to therapy, advanced imaging, treatment of metastatic disease, and improved nodal staging. Current approaches and important future directions are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. stephen.grobmyer@surgery.ufl.edu
authors.forename: Stephen R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Grobmyer
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Morse
authors.forename: Bradley
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fletcher
authors.forename: Luke G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Gutwein
authors.forename: Parvesh
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Vijay
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Krishna
authors.forename: Susan C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Frost
authors.forename: Brij M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Moudgil
authors.forename: Scott C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D053758:Nanoparticles; D036103:Nanotechnology