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ArticleExpert opinion on drug delivery2017

Cancer nanomedicines: oversold or underappreciated?

Roy van der Meel, Twan Lammers, Wim E Hennink

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Article in Expert opinion on drug delivery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
58citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

58 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Towards targeted drugs and next generation of nanomedicines.Beilstein journal of nanotechnology · 2026
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  11. Smart Cancer Nanomedicine for Synergetic Therapy.Current medicinal chemistry · 2025
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  14. Emerging Strategies for Immunotherapy of Solid Tumors Using Lipid-Based Nanoparticles.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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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

3 authors.

Roy van der Meela Department of Clinical Chemistry and Haematology , University Medical Center Utrecht , Utrecht , The Netherlands.
Twan Lammersc Department of Nanomedicine and Theranostics, Institute for Experimental Molecular Imaging , RWTH Aachen University Clinic , Aachen , Germany.
Wim E Henninke Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences , Utrecht University , Utrecht , The Netherlands.

Funding

European Research Council 309495
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Cancer nanomedicinesClinical translationClinical trialsCombination treatmentDrug deliveryDrug targetingEPR effectTriggered release

Identifiers

PMID27852113
PMCPMC5404718

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Registered trials

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