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Interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) is the innovative biomaterial that forms a breakthrough in the polymeric science. It is an intelligent polymeric multicomponent system which is biocompatible and biodegradable as well known for its specific drug-releasing tendency with response to a stimuli. It also possesses a dual-phase continuity other than interpenetrating at the molecular level. As a result, the IPN system is widely preferred in the field of cancer therapy with zero-order drug delivery method that retains minimized fluctuations. The potentiality of this IPN system makes it a vast research area to diagnose and treat cancer and related diseases. The complexity and synergistic nature of this IPN system overcome the drawbacks of the individual polymeric carriers for cancer diagnosis and treatment, thus making it as a unique drug delivery vehicle. The comprehensive view of IPN classification, methods of preparation, their applications in cancer treatment and mechanism of drug release and action are explicitly focussed on in this chapter.
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Jeslin, J., Dhanya, B.S., Chamundeeswari, M. (2020). IPN Systems for Cancer Therapy. In: Jana, S., Jana, S. (eds) Interpenetrating Polymer Network: Biomedical Applications. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0283-5_9
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