Nano-sized drug delivery systems might well be a fundamental tool to
overcome some of the major challenges for future treatment of cancer, optimizing drug
effectiveness while simultaneously reducing systemic side effects. This chapter is an
update on patents related to nanosystems applications to anticancer drug delivery
published in the last five years (2010-2015); the chapter focuses on polymeric
nanosystems (nanospheres, nanocapsules, hydrogel based nanosystems, dendrimers and
polymeric micelles).
Keywords: Anticancer drugs, biopharmaceutics, cancer therapy, drug delivery,
dendrimers, hydrogels, multifunctional systems, nanocapsules, nanomedicine,
nanoshells, nanospheres, nanosystems, nanotechnology, patents, pharmacokinetics,
polymeric micelles, stimuli-responsive systems, cancer, tumors, hybrid
nanosystems, polymer-based nanocarriers, polymeric nanocarriers.
