Owing
to the distinctive constituents of tumor tissue from those
healthy organs, nanomedicine strategies show significant potentials
in smart drug delivery. Nowadays, stimuli-responsive nanogels are
playing increasingly important roles in the application of cancer
therapy because of their sensitivity to various internal or external
physicochemical stimuli, which exhibit site-specific and markedly
enhanced drug release. Besides, nanogels are promising as drug carriers
because of their porous structures, good biocompatibility, large surface
area, and excellent capability with drugs. Taking advantage of multiresponsiveness,
recent years have witnessed the rapid evolution of stimulus-responsive
nanogels from monoresponsive to multiresponsive systems; however,
there lacks a comprehensive review summarizing these reports. In this
Review, we discuss the properties, synthesis, and characterization
of nanogels. Moreover, tumor microenvironment and corresponding designing
strategies for stimuli-response nanogels, both exogenous (temperature,
magnetic field, light) and endogenous (pH, biomolecular, redox, ROS,
pressure, hypoxia) are summarized on the basis of the recent advances
in multistimuli-responsive nanogel systems. Nanogel and two-dimensional
material composites show excellent performance in the field of constructing
multistimulus-responsive nanoparticles and precise intelligent drug
release integrated system for multimodal cancer diagnosis and therapy.
Finally, potential progresses and suggestions are provided for the
further design of hybrid nanogels based on emerging two-dimensional
materials.