As of right now, we have no real way of treating cancer without harming the patient. These methods include surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy which all risk damaging tissue or not completely eradicating cancer. Nanotechnology would be extremely beneficial for the treatment of cancer as it would help chemotherapy directly target cancerous cells, help with the removal of tumors and it would help reduce risks to patients and increase the survival rate. A more specific example of how nanotechnology could be helpful is its potential role in serving malaria patients. Conventional chemotherapy can result in resistant parasites development which results in high dose requirements. The alternative approach using nanotechnology would be to deliver antimalarials using nanocarriers which would target infected cells. It has already been proven to be effective using animal models and should continue to be researched and studied to be a potentially promising treatment method for malaria, which continues to be a serious and fatal disease worldwide which has killed approximately 409,000 people in 2019.
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