Nanorobots in cancer treatment

From eliminating the side effects of chemotherapy to treating Alzheimer´s disease, the potential medical applications of nanorobots are vast and ambitious. In the past decade, researchers have made many improvements on the different systems required for developing practical nanorobots, such as sensors, energy supply, and data transmission. A few generations from now someone diagnosed with cancer will be offered a new alternative to chemotherapy. The traditional treatment of radiation that kills not just cancer cells but healthy human cells as well, causing hair loss, fatigue, nausea, depression, and a host of other symptoms. A doctor practicing nanomedicine would offer the patient an injection of a special type of nanorobot that would seek out cancer cells and destroy them, dispelling the disease at the source, leaving healthy cells untouched. The extent of the hardship to the patient would essentially be a prick to the arm. A person undergoing a nanorobotic treatment could expect to have no awareness of the molecular devices working inside them, other than rapid betterment of their health. This paper presents a study on different approaches employed towards cancer treatment using nano robots. Further it also provides an insight into the future scope in this field of study.