Title:Use of Anticancer Platinum Compounds in Combination Therapies and Challenges in Drug Delivery
Volume: 27
Issue: 18
Author(s): Xiao Xiao, James Trevor Oswald, Ting Wang, Weina Zhang*Wenliang Li*
Affiliation:
- Common Subjects Department, Shangqiu Medical College, Henan 476100,China
- School of Pharmacy, Jilin Medical University, Jilin, 132013,China
Keywords:
Drug delivery, drug combination, platinum drug, nanoparticle, anti-tumor drugs, nanotechnology-based
delivery.
Abstract: As one of the leading and most important metal-based drugs, platinum-based
pharmaceuticals are widely used in the treatment of solid malignancies. Despite significant
side effects and acquired drug resistance have limited their clinical applications, platinum has
shown strong inhibitory effects for a wide assortment of tumors. Drug delivery systems using
emerging technologies such as liposomes, dendrimers, polymers, nanotubes and other nanocompositions,
all show promise for the safe delivery of platinum-based compounds. Due to
the specificity of nano-formulations; unwanted side-effects and drug resistance can be largely
averted. In addition, combinational therapy has been shown to be an effective way to improve
the efficacy of platinum based anti-tumor drugs. This review first introduces drug delivery
systems used for platinum and combinational therapeutic delivery. Then we highlight some of
the recent advances in the field of drug delivery for combinational therapy; specifically progress
in leveraging the cytotoxic nature of platinum-based drugs, the combinational effect of
other drugs with platinum, while evaluating the drug targeting, side effect reducing and sitespecific
nature of nanotechnology-based delivery platforms.