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Carbon-Based Tumour-targeted Systems

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Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally. Lung cancer and breast cancer are the most common types of cancer in men and women, respectively. Many strategies are used to target cancer such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy. Immunotherapy is the latest addition to these strategies, but they also suffer from hypersensitive and allergic reactions. Lately nanoparticles have gained enormous interest in the nanomedicine due to their unique properties at the nanoscale level. These can be modified easily by biomolecules. Carbon is the extraordinary and most sought of material in the nano world. The beauty of the carbon to form covalent linkage with different orbital hybridization forms various nanoallotropes of carbon having different hybridization between C-C. Carbon is the basis of life on earth. Thus, these carbon nanomaterials are biocompatible. Earlier only diamond and graphite were the two known allotropes of carbon. But the discovery of fullerene (C60) in 1985 has opened a new avenue for the discovery of carbon nanoallotropes. Soon this was followed by the discovery of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by Iijima.

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