Table of Contents

Cancer Nanotechnology: Opportunities for Prevention, Diagnosis, and Therapy.- Improved Targeting of Cancers with Nanotherapeutics.- Multifunctional Liposomes.- Multifunctional Concentric FRET-Quantum Dot Probes for Tracking and Imaging of Proteolytic Activity.- Preparation and Characterization of Magnetic Nano-in-Microparticles for Pulmonary Delivery.- Multifunctionalization of Gold Nanoshells.- Fabrication of Photothermal Stable Gold Nanosphere/Mesoporous Silica Hybrid Nanoparticle Responsive to Near-Infrared Light.- Engineering Well-Characterized PEG-Coated Nanoparticles for Elucidating Biological Barriers to Drug Delivery.- Piloting Your Nanovehicle to Overcome Biological Barriers.- Detecting Sonolysis of Polyethylene Glycol Upon Functionalizing Carbon Nanotubes.- Methods for Generation and Detection of Non-Stationary Vapor Nanobubbles Around Plasmonic Nanoparticles.- Force Measurements for Cancer Cells.- Fractal Analysis of Cancer Cell Surface.- Quantitative Evaluation of the Enhanced Permeability and Retention (EPR) Effect.- Nanotechnology-Based Cancer Vaccines.- Designing Multicomponent Nanosystems for Rapid Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells.- Fluorescence and Bioluminescence Imaging of Orthotopic Brain Tumors in Mice.- An Ultrasensitive Biosensing Platform Employing Acetylcholinesterase and Gold Nanoparticles.- Gene Silencing Using Multifunctionalized Gold Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy.- Generation of Dose Response Curves and Improved IC50’s for PARP Inhibitor Nanoformulations.- Artificial Antigen-Presenting Cells for Immunotherapies.- Exploiting Uptake of Nanoparticles by Phagocytes for Cancer Treatment.- Pulmonary Delivery of Magnetically-Targeted Nano-in-Microparticles.- Neutron-Activatable Nanoparticles for Intraperitoneal Radiation Therapy.- Nanoparticle-Mediated X-Ray Radiation Enhancement for Cancer Therapy.- Radiosensitizing Silica Nanoparticles Encapsulating Docetaxel for Treatment of Prostate Cancer.