On the row of various cancers in the world, the Lung cancer falls to number two in both female and male. Various surgical and non-surgical therapeutic approaches including chemotherapy, photodynamic therapy, and radiotherapy are employed in the treatment of lung cancer. However, most of these techniques are costly, complex and lacks patient compliance. In case of chemotherapy, it is associated with lack of specific tumour targeting, with limited drug solubility leads insufficient amount of drug reaches to a tumor site. To overcome these demerits associated with chemotherapy, various types of nanoparticles (both organic and inorganic) are synthesized and studied in treating lung cancers. In this article, we have reviewed the various types of nanoparticles that have been used in treating lung cancers. This review was carried out by searches of relevant published articles, reviews and abstracts in PubMed/Medline, Web of Science, clinicaltrials.gov, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Google Scholar of all English language articles. The following search terms were used: Lung cancer, Target delivery, animal models, Nanoformulation, Nanoparticles and Polymeric Nanoparticles.

In the mid-end of December 2019, several cases of pneumonia outbreak of unknown cause and etiology were identified in Wuhan City of Hubei province in China, a city with a population of over 11 million.Till date(April 2020) around 1,051,635 confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) and 56,985 confirmed deaths have been reported according to COVID-19 Situation Report – 75 by WHO. On 7th January 2020, the causative agent was identified and named consequently as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) from throat swab samples. Later, on 12th January 2020, this coronavirus was named as 2019-novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by World Health Organization (WHO) and in 11th February 2020,it has been declared the epidemic disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 as Corona Virus Disease 2019(COVID-19) as it is spreading rapidly from its origin in Wuhan City to the rest of the world. In this context, the current review provides a landscape of the novel Corona Virus including its origin, transmission, epidemiology, drugs and vaccines in clinical trials for better understanding to the reads and peoples the status and future perspectives of this pandemic disease