Experimental and Clinical Advances in Counteracting Progression of Solid Cancers
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Cancer Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 53194
Special Issue Editors
Interests: breast and gastrointestinal cancer follow-up and therapy; breast cancer biomarkers and prognostic factors; cancer immunology; circulating tumor cells; cancer stem cells
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Interests: breast and gastrointestinal cancer
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cancer is a complex and hard to face genetic disease. The current model describes sustaining proliferative signalling, evading growth suppressors, resisting cell death, enabling replicative immortality, inducing angiogenesis, activating invasion and metastasis, reprogramming energy and metabolism and evading immune destruction the principal hallmarks promoting cancer progression. All of them occur in the context of chronic inflammation and genomic instability, two additional, more recently defined hallmarks. Moreover, the cross-talk between cancer cell and tumor microenvironment significantly contributes to cancer evolution. Detectable metastatic disease is commonly uncurable and accounts for most cancer deaths. Understanding the genetic and biological mechanisms sustaining progression from cancer initiation to overt metastatic disease is crucial to efficaciously contrast cancer disease. Although a long way has been run, cancer remains a "work in progress" yard and a huge social problem and many expectations come from the recent advances in genetic technology, molecular biology and immunology-immunotherapy. Any experimental and clinical work potentially relevant to this special issue will be carefully considered for inclusion.
Dr. Paola Ferrari
Prof. Dr. Andrea Nicolini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- solid cancers
- cancer progression
- tumor cross-talk
- cancer genetics
- cancer molecular biology
- cancer immunology
- cancer immunotherapy
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