“…However, mesoporous silica-based materials have also been functionalized with metallodrugs of interest in cancer treatment, such as platinum compounds [7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14], titanium compounds [10,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23], tin compounds [22,24,25] and even ruthenium photosensitizers [26], observing promising anticancer activity and a potential future application in clinical trials. The cellular action of these metallodrug-functionalized nanostructured silica-based materials showed that, in most cases, the nanosystems do not release the metallodrug to the biological medium (or the metallodrug release rates are very low), and they usually act as “non-classical” drug-delivery systems, whose cytotoxic activity is due to the action of the entire nanoparticle.…”