Open Access<p>Application of Carbon Nanoparticles in Tracing Lymph Nodes and Locating Tumors in Colorectal Cancer: A Concise Review</p>
Author(s) -
Pengcheng Liu,
Jie Tan,
Qiuwen Tan,
Li Xu,
Tao He,
Qing Lv
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of nanomedicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.245
H-Index - 128
eISSN - 1178-2013
pISSN - 1176-9114
DOI - 10.2147/ijn.s281914
Subject(s) - colorectal cancer , carbon nanoparticles , medicine , lymph node , cancer , randomized controlled trial , lymph , cochrane library , oncology , nanoparticle , pathology , nanotechnology , materials science
Accurate lymph node (LN) staging has considerably prognostic and therapeutic value in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of applying carbon nanoparticles (CNPs) to track LN metastases in CRC.