The targeting detection and therapy are important needs to improve current clinical treatments of cancers, and for that, finding the specific and sensitive molecular fragment is an effective approach.

Juanjuan Han et al. screened a gastric cancer specifically binding peptide from a 12 mer peptide library.

Their results indicate this peptide with the specific and sensitive affinity to gastric cancer by its targeting to gastric cancer cells and tissues comparing with the cells and tissues from other cancers or normal controls.

The results support this peptide as potential candidate to be used to the targeting detection, drug delivery and therapy of gastric cancer.