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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 5.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2012 Dec 1;64(Suppl):353–365. doi: 10.1016/j.addr.2012.09.011

Table 1.

Systemic therapy of cancer

Therapy Agent
Molecules Particles Cells
Radiotherapy × ×
Chemotherapy × ×
Immunotherapy × × ×
Gene therapy × × ×
Hyperthermia ×
Phototherapy × ×

Agents used in various conventional and novel therapies can be divided in three categories: molecules, particles, and cells