Nanomedicine may have a delivery problem. Rigorous, realistic and holistic rethinking is needed to improve nanomedicine performance and increase patient benefit.
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T.L. gratefully acknowledges support by the European Research Council (StG-309495, PoC-680882) and by the German Research Foundation (LA 2937/1-2).
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Lammers, T., Kiessling, F., Ashford, M. et al. Cancer nanomedicine: is targeting our target?. Nat Rev Mater 1, 16069 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/natrevmats.2016.69
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