Extracellular vesicles as natural therapeutic agents and innate drug delivery systems for cancer treatment: Recent advances, current obstacles, and challenges for clinical translation

As cancer poses a significant threat to the well-being of humans on a global scale, many researchers have embarked on the search for effective anticancer therapeutic agents. In recent years, many drugs have been shown to have extraordinary anticancer effects. However, in a lot of cases the treatment is accompanied by undesirable side effects due to some intrinsic properties linked to the therapeutic agents, such as poor targeting selectivity and...