While cancer research and care have benefited from revolutionary advances in the ability to manipulate and study living systems, the field is limited by a lack of synergy to leverage the power of engineering approaches. Cancer engineering is an emerging subfield of biomedical engineering that unifies engineering and cancer biology to better understand, diagnose, and treat cancer. We highlight cancer engineering’s unique challenges, the importance of creating dedicated centers and departments that enable translational collaboration, and educational approaches to arm a new generation of scientists with engineering expertise and a fundamental understanding of cancer biology to transform clinical cancer care.

虽然癌症研究和护理受益于操纵和研究生命系统能力的革命性进步，但该领域由于缺乏利用工程方法力量的协同作用而受到限制。癌症工程是生物医学工程的一个新兴子领域，它将工程学和癌症生物学结合起来，以更好地理解、诊断和治疗癌症。我们强调癌症工程的独特挑战、创建专门的中心和部门以实现转化合作的重要性，以及为新一代科学家提供工程专业知识和对癌症生物学的基本了解以改变临床癌症护理的教育方法。