摘要
Cancer refers to a collection of diseases that have abnormal cell growth as their hallmark.This inability of cytotoxic agents to distinguish between rapidly dividing healthy cells and rapidly multiplying cancerous cells produces the most notorious adverse effects of cytotoxic anticancer agents.As an essential tool in nanotechnology,nanoemulsions have therapeutic and clinical applications.Currently,nanoemulsions are considered to be one of the most feasible nano-carriers for delivering lipophilic antineoplastic agents with targeted delivery.In addition to solving water-solubilization issues,these formulations deliver specific targeting to cancer cells and might even be developed to overcome multi-drug resistance.Nanoemulsions overcome the problems associated with conventional drug delivery systems,such as low bioavailability and noncompliance.A review of nanoemulsion in cancer therapeutics is presented here to shed light on the current position of this technology.