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ReviewRSC advances2026

Hybrid exosomes: a rising horizon for precision cancer therapy.

Swarup Sonar, Asmit Das, Sidhanti Nyahatkar, Rajib Dhar, Ketki Kalele, Vinod R M T Balasubramaniam, Ling Shing Wong, Vinoth Kumarasamy, Vetriselvan Subramaniyan

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Review in RSC advances, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

9 authors.

Swarup SonarJeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia Bandar Sunway Subang Jaya 47500 Selangor Malaysia swarup.sonar@monash.edu asmit.das@monash.edu vinod.balasubramaniam@monash.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1225-473X
Asmit DasJeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia Bandar Sunway Subang Jaya 47500 Selangor Malaysia swarup.sonar@monash.edu asmit.das@monash.edu vinod.balasubramaniam@monash.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4080-1208
Sidhanti NyahatkarDepartment of Dentistry, VYWS Dental College & Hospital Amravati Maharashtra India sidhantinyahatkar249@gmail.com.
Rajib DharDivision of Pharmacology, Sir Jeffrey Cheah Sunway Medical School, Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences, Sunway University Bandar Sunway 47500 Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia rajib.d@imail.sunway.edu.my vetris@sunway.edu.my.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3924-9367
Ketki KaleleDepartment of Oncology, Neuron Institute of Applied Research Amravati Maharashtra India drketkikalele@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1900-0847
Vinod R M T BalasubramaniamJeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia Bandar Sunway Subang Jaya 47500 Selangor Malaysia swarup.sonar@monash.edu asmit.das@monash.edu vinod.balasubramaniam@monash.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9583-307X
Ling Shing WongFaculty of Health and Life Sciences, INTI International University Nilai 71800 Malaysia lingshing.wong@newinti.edu.my.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5869-0804
Vinoth KumarasamyDepartment of Parasitology and Medical Entomology, Faculty of Medicine, University Kebangsaan Malaysia Jalan Yaacob Latif 56000 Cheras Kuala Lumpur Malaysia vinoth@ukm.edu.my.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3597-0202
Vetriselvan SubramaniyanDivision of Pharmacology, Sir Jeffrey Cheah Sunway Medical School, Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences, Sunway University Bandar Sunway 47500 Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia rajib.d@imail.sunway.edu.my vetris@sunway.edu.my.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9629-9494

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nanoscale vesicles, which show significant promise as biomarkers for cancer diagnosis and prognosis, by providing valuable information about cancer progression and treatment response. Their therapeutic potential (including their popular subset: exosomes) is significant, but challenges remain. These limitations with natural exosomes, necessitate innovative engineering strategies. However, current methods for engineering exosomes, such as chimeric and surface modifications, still need to be improved. A prominent issue is drug off-targeting, leading to ineffective treatment and side effects. To address these challenges, "hybrid exosomes" have been engineered by combining the inherent biocompatibility of natural exosomes with the versatility of synthetic nanoparticles. Cutting-edge design strategies for hybrid exosomes, such as bio-hybrid approaches, emphasize their superior drug loading capacity, and targeted delivery to tumor sites, resulting in minimized toxicity profiles. Furthermore, we showcase recent breakthroughs in leveraging hybrid exosomes for the effective delivery and cellular uptake of chemotherapeutic agents and immunotherapies, which offer significantly enhanced therapeutic outcomes in preclinical cancer models, with emerging clinical relevance. This review explores the evolving field of hybrid exosomes, a novel approach to cancer therapeutics and highlights their potential to overcome existing limitations in cancer treatment. Hybrid exosomes offer a transformative approach to cancer treatment, promising affordable and effective precision therapy with a significant impact on cancer therapeutics.

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PMCPMC12758559

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