"Version: 20191001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Cancer and statistics -- 1.2. Conventional therapies for cancer and their limitations -- 1.3. Alternative theranostics strategy: nanomedicine -- 1.4. Magnetic nanoparticles and cancer theranostics2. Magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles: types, synthesis and characterization -- 2.1. Common types of mag…