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8 Concluding Remarks
Pages 67-68

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... Additional challenges may impede progress in bringing nanotechnologies into the clinic, including public wariness of such innovative materials, a lack of nanotechnology manufacturing and testing standards, and gaps in regulation. But because of the unique properties of nanomaterials that make them more likely to concentrate in tumors, penetrate various biological barriers that conventional small molecules cannot cross, and safely encapsulate toxic medicines and carry large payloads, the most common opinion seemed to be that nanotechnology would improve oncology.
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