Nanomedicine and cancer therapies.

9781926895185

Nanomedicine and cancer therapies.

Ed. by Mathew Sebastian et al.

Apple Academic Press

2013

254 pages

$149.95

Hardcover

Advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology; v.2

R857

Sebastian, a surgeon associated with an Ayurveda and vein clinic in Austria, et al. bring together nanotechnology, nursing, oncology, science, and other researchers from around the world for 13 chapters that present information and research on how nanomedicine, holistic medicine, and other therapies contribute to the treatment of cancer. Topics include in vivo spectroscopy for the detection and treatment of glioblastoma multiforms, nanobiotechnology for antibacterial therapy and diagnosis, chitosan nanoparticles, the synthesis and biomedical application of silver nanoparticles, the use of phytochemicals, mitochondrial dysfunction and cancer, the life purpose dominant concept and the interrelations between mind and body and the unity of psychosomatic processes, the use of Thuja occidentalis Linn. in breast cancer, antioxidants and combinatorial therapies, the use of Eruca sativa to inhibit melanoma growth, and the concepts of suffering and comfort.

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