TY - BOOK AU - Cho, Sang Hyun AU - Krishnan, Sunil TI - Cancer nanotechnology: principles and applications in radiation oncology SN - 9780367842888 U1 - 616.99407572 PY - 2013/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press KW - Nanomedicine KW - Cancer--Treatment KW - Cancer--Radiotherapy KW - Tumors--Radiotherapy N2 - Rapid advances in nanotechnology have enabled the fabrication of nanoparticles from various materials with different shapes, sizes, and properties, and efforts are ongoing to exploit these materials for practical clinical applications. Nanotechnology is particularly relevant in the field of oncology, as the leaky and chaotic vasculature of tumors-a hallmark of unrestrained growth-results in the passive accumulation of nanoparticles within tumors ER -