Recent Advances in Nanocarriers for Pancreatic Cancer Therapy reviews thriving strategies concerning pancreatic cancer therapy, thoroughly describing the most recent developments in emerging modern drug delivery systems focused on, and derived from, nanotechnology. By providing a holistic understanding of the molecular pathways, conventional therapy and novel nanocarriers mediated drug delivery against pancreatic cancer, this work can be considered a complete package. The book offers a solution to the dissemination of data from a broad range of resources by providing an overview of the molecular pathways and conventional therapy of pancreatic cancer, the application of various nanocarriers, and more.

This book equips scientists, clinicians and students to make rational treatment approaches based on nanomedicine for improving and extending the human life against pancreatic cancer.


Explains the complete journey of nanomedicine-based approaches in pancreatic cancer drug delivery from fundamental to most recent applications
Provides information about various approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic cancer using the latest advancement in cutting-edge nanomedical technologies
Discusses the perspectives of the technologies explored to date based upon the findings outlined in highly organized tables, illustrative figures and flow charts for easy consult and comprehension



Part A. Overview, molecular pathways and conventional therapy of pancreatic cancer

1. Introduction: An Overview of the anatomy and physiology of the pancreas
Dr. Avan and Farzad Rahmani

2. Different drug / drug combination based therapies pertaining to pancreatic cancer
Rezvan Yazdian-Robati, Parisa ? ? Saberi-Hasanabadi?, Zahra Salmasi? and Hamidreza Mohammadi

Part B. Application of various nanocarriers for the management of pancreatic cancer

3. Nanotechnology potential in treatment and overcoming pancreatic cancer resistance
Sanjeeb Sahoo, Shwetapadma Dash and Sonali Sahoo

4. Precision medicine for treatment of pancreatic cancer
Carolina de la Pinta

5. Hydrogel based drug delivery for pancreatic cancer
Ranjita Misra

6. Nanoemulsions based drug delivery for pancreatic cancer
Ali A. Alshatwi

7. Liposomes and niosomes based drug delivery for pancreatic cancer
Rezvan Yazdian-Robati

8. Micelles based drug delivery for pancreatic cancer
Balaram Ghosh, Sanjay Ch, Tarun Patel and Swati Biswas

9. Theranostic Nanoparticles in pancreatic cancer
Ahad Mokhtarzadeh

10. Polymeric nanoparticles based drug delivery for pancreatic cancer
Venkatesan Perumal, Geetha Palani and Sivakumar Vijayaraghavalu

11. Metallic nanoparticles based drug delivery for pancreatic cancer
Julieta Soledad Riva, Sara Moya Betancourt, Jorge G. Uranga, Viviana Daboin and Paula Bercoff

12. Solid lipid nanoparticles based drug delivery for pancreatic cancer
Sumit Sheoran, Swati Arora, Ayushi Velingkar, Shelly Gupta and Sugunakar Vuree

13. Recent update on solid lipid nanoparticles mediated drug delivery for pancreatic cancer
Sivakumar Manickam

14. Dendrimers and carbon nanotubes based drug delivery for pancreatic cancer
Serap Yalcin

Part C. Recent advances and future prospective for pancreatic cancer

15. Personalized medicine and new therapeutic approach in the treatment of pancreatic cancer
Dr. Avan

16. Clinical practice guidelines for interventional treatment of pancreatic cancer
Dr. Avan

17. Gene therapy and aptamer mediated nano therapy for pancreatic cancer
Rezvan Yazdian-Robati, Hamidreza Mohammadi, Seyyed Mobin Rahimnia, Sadegh Dehghani and Amin Shad

18. Photodynamic therapy for pancreatic cancer
Rezvan Yazdian-Robati

19. Future prospect of nano based drug delivery approaches against pancreatic cancer and expected pitfalls of the technology
Prashant Kesharwani