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Nature Reviews Cancer 6, 688–701 (1 September 2006) | doi:10.1038/nrc1958

Polymer conjugates as anticancer nanomedicines

Ruth Duncan

The transfer of polymer–protein conjugates into routine clinical use, and the clinical development of polymer–anticancer-drug conjugates, both as single agents and as components of combination therapy, is establishing polymer therapeutics as one of the first classes of anticancer nanomedicines. There is growing optimism that ever more sophisticated polymer-based vectors will be a signficant addition to the armoury currently used for cancer therapy.