title: Engineering Biomaterial-Drug Conjugates for Local and Sustained Chemotherapeutic Delivery.
abstract: The standard of care for cancer patients includes surgical resection, radiation, and chemotherapy with cytotoxic chemotherapy drugs usually part of the treatment. However, these drugs are commonly associated with cardiotoxicity, ototoxicity, nephrotoxicity, peripheral neuropathy, and myelosuppression. Strategies to deliver cytotoxic chemotherapy drugs while reducing secondary toxicity and increasing tumor dosing would therefore be desirable. This goal can be achieved through the use of controlled release drug carrier systems. The aim of this review is to provide an overview of clinically used drug carrier systems and recently developed approaches for drug-biomaterial conjugation.
authors.affiliation: †Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, United States.
authors.forename: Jeannine M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Coburn
authors.affiliation: †Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, United States.
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Kaplan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000737:chemistry*; D004337:Drug Carriers / Q000737:chemistry*; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems; D006801:Humans; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D004337:Drug Carriers; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations