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Nanotechnology is defined as interaction of engineered materials, cellular and molecular components which usually made up from atoms, molecular fragments and molecules. In the field of medicine and in the scope of cancer, nanotechnology refers as engineering and science of altering matter at the molecular level to create tools with physical, biological and chemical properties which has the ability to diagnose, treat and cure cancer. Nanotechnology in the field on cancer could break into three applications which are diagnostic, drug delivery and therapy.
Nanotechnology
has now able to make a spot in the field of medicine and it has now finally
able to provide some great development in the process of curing cancers even
though it is still in the process of researching and testing.
Written By: Team 3 (Go Yuan Fon & Wong Houy Shyan)
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