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ReviewJournal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society2016

Nanomedicine of synergistic drug combinations for cancer therapy - Strategies and perspectives.

Rui Xue Zhang, Ho Lun Wong, Hui Yi Xue, June Young Eoh, Xiao Yu Wu

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Review in Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 129 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
129citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
14.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

129 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 367 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Analysis of multi-drug cancer nanomedicine.Nature nanotechnology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Rui Xue Zhang *Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, 144 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2S2.
Ho Lun Wong *Temple University School of Pharmacy, 3304 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA.
Hui Yi XueTemple University School of Pharmacy, 3304 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA.
June Young EohTemple University School of Pharmacy, 3304 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA.
Xiao Yu WuLeslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, 144 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2S2.
Temple University · USUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

WORD PROCESSING CENTER--COREP30CA006927 · NCI · RESEARCH INST OF FOX CHASE CAN CTR · PI Dietmar J Kappes · 1985 to 2026
$138.8M
Hybrid nanotechnology to target metastatic advanced prostate cancerR01CA168917 · NCI · TEMPLE UNIV OF THE COMMONWEALTH · PI WONG, HO-LUN · 2012 to 2016
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA006927NCI NIH HHS R01 CA168917
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanomedicine of synergistic drug combinations has shown increasing significance in cancer therapy due to its promise in providing superior therapeutic benefits to the current drug combination therapy used in clinical practice. In this article, we will examine the rationale, principles, and advantages of applying nanocarriers to improve anticancer drug combination therapy, review the use of nanocarriers for delivery of a variety of combinations of different classes of anticancer agents including small molecule drugs and biologics, and discuss the challenges and future perspectives of the nanocarrier-based combination therapy. The goal of this review is to provide better understanding of this increasingly important new paradigm of cancer treatment and key considerations for rational design of nanomedicine of synergistic drug combinations for cancer therapy.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsCombined Modality TherapyDrug CarriersDrug SynergismGenetic TherapyHumansNanomedicineNanostructuresNeoplasmsDrug CarriersCancer therapyNanomedicinePerspectivesStrategiesSynergistic drug combinations

Identifiers

PMID27287891
PMCPMC5064882
OpenAlexW2417973730

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