Rare Tumors Involving Bone–Insight into Their Biology, Novel Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tools, including Targeted Therapies
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Oncology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 2719
Special Issue Editors
Interests: osteosarcoma; histiocytosis; osteoblatsts and osteoclasts coupling; bone homeostasis; cell biology; non-coding RNA; targeted cancer therapy; non-invasive biomarkers
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to share your research and contribute to this special issue devoted to rare tumors involving bone tissue. Tumors that occur in fewer than 15 out of 100 000 people each year are defined by National Cancer Institute as rare cancer. Pediatric uncommon primary cancers affecting bone include osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, chondrosarcoma but also histiocytosis, primary bone lymphoma, and other very rare neoplasms. Treatment of rare cancer associated with the bone is particularly challenging due to often late and incorrect diagnosis and limited preclinical studies on novel, cost-effective therapeutic strategies.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the most current studies aimed at developing methods for precise diagnosis of rare bone-associated cancers and research on targeted and personalized therapies. Great emphasis will be put on the biology and molecular pathogenesis of rare cancers affecting bone, as these studies guarantee advancements in the development of new precise treatment methods. This special issue will also focus on the role of non-coding RNAs in the pathogenesis of rare cancers associated with bone, introducing long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) and small non-coding RNAs as potentially sensitive and reliable non-invasive biomarkers or therapeutic targets.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Agnieszka Śmieszek
Prof. Dr. Anna Raciborska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rare bone involving tumors
- osteosarcoma
- Ewing sarcoma
- chondrosarcoma
- histiocytosis
- primary bone lymphoma
- targeted therapies and personalized therapies
- precise diagnostics
- cancer cell biology
- circulating and tissue-specific molecular biomarkers, including non-coding RNA
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