Urogenital Cancers: Diagnostic, Predictive, and Prognostic Markers
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2019) | Viewed by 54099
Special Issue Editor
Interests: renal cell carcinoma; urothelial carcinoma; prostate cancer
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Dear Colleagues,
Urogenital cancers include urothelial cancer, renal cell carcinoma, prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and other types of malignancies arising from retroperitoneal organs. Some of them are deadly and others are indolent, claiming that active surveillance is acceptable. There are still unsolved problems in early diagnosis, treatment selection, and precision medicine in this field. The forthcoming Special Issue focuses on many vital aspects that make urologists understand urogenital cancers, their characteristics, early diagnosis, prediction of treatment efficacy, and risk factors that are significant to the clinical management of urogenital cancer. We welcome submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Morbidity risk factors
- Non-invasive detection biomarkers (focusing on early detection is preferred): strengths and weaknesses
- Novel DNA, RNA, protein biomarkers
- Novel systemic inflammation markers and nutritional markers such as the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), C-reactive protein (CRP), and Glasgow prognostic score (GPS)
- Novel radiographic markers
- Histological variants and their clinical impact
- Predictors of treatment responses
- Precision medicine
- Immunotherapy including immune check point inhibitors
- Decreasing morbidity risk, recurrence risk, and progression risk
- Upstaging in surgical specimens: gap between clinical stage and pathological stage
- Interpretation of cancer screening trials such as PSA screening in prostate cancer and urianalysis screening for bladder cancer
Dr. Makito Miyake
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Urothelial cancer
- Bladder cancer
- Upper urinary tract cancer
- Renal cell carcinoma
- Prostate cancer
- Testicular cancer
- Diagnosis
- Risk factors
- Biomarkers
- Screening
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