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Table 5 Examples of nanocarriers for anticancer therapy

From: Nanomaterials for cancer therapy: current progress and perspectives

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Description

Pharmaceutical ingredients

Disease

Status

References

PNP

Decorated with somatostatin analogue

Cetuximab

Colon cancer

Phase 1

NCT03774680

NP

Combined with enzalutamide

Camptothecin

Metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer

Phase 2

NCT03531827

NP

Co-coated drug

Nab-paclitaxel rituximab

B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Phase 1

NCT03003546

Liposome

Liposome

irinotecan

Small cell lung cancer

Phase 3

NCT03088813

Liposome

Pegylated liposomal carrier

Doxorubicin trastuzumab

HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer

Phase 2

NCT03933319

Nanoemulsion

Photosensitizer in PDT therapy

Aminolevulinic acid nanoemulsion

Basal cell carcinomas

Phase 2

NCT02367547

Quantum dot

Coated with drug

veldoreotide

Breast cancer

Phase 1

NCT04138342

Albumin NP

NP bound albumin (Abraxane)

Paclitaxel

Breast cancer, NSCLC, pancreatic cancer

Approved by FDA

[254]

Liposome

Liposome (DepoCyt)

Cytarabine

Lymphomatous malignancies

Approved by FDA

[255]

Liposome

Liposome (Marqibo)

Vincristine sulfate

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Approved by FDA

[256]

Liposome

Liposome (Doxil)

Doxorubicin

HIV-related Kaposi sarcoma, ovarian cancer, multiple myeloma

Approved by FDA

[19]

Liposome

Liposome (DaunoXome)

Daunorubicin

HIV-related Kaposi sarcoma

Approved by FDA

[257]

Polymer protein conjugate

Multi-agent chemotherapy-eutic regimen (Oncaspar)

L-asparaginase

leukemia

Approved by FDA

[258]

  1. NP, nanoparticle; PDT, Photodynamic therapy; PNP, Polymeric nanoparticle
  2. US Clinical trials website (http://clinicaltrials.gov/) [259]–US Food and Drug Administration website (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/) [260]