Current Advances in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches for Gastric Cancer
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Oncology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2025 | Viewed by 1970
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Patients with gastric adenocarcinoma (GA) are commonly diagnosed with advanced disease, since the most common symptoms are generally non-specific, such as dyspepsia, heartburn, indigestion, anemia, and weight loss, among others. Additionally, a significant number of patients are asymptomatic. The gold-standard test for GA diagnosis is upper endoscopy with biopsy collection, which is an invasive procedure with implied intrinsic risks. Most patients will be subjected to therapeutic regimens combining chemotherapy with surgery and in some cases also immunotherapy, without knowing which of them will respond to treatment.
This Special Issue welcomes manuscripts presenting:
- Non-invasive and less-invasive methodologies for gastric cancer diagnosis, staging and prognosis, including but not restricted to liquid and breath biopsies and digital pathology and imaging. Additionally, we welcome papers on the evaluation of patients at risk of developing gastric cancer or prone to developing gastric malignancy due to history of familial disease.
- Methodologies or biomarkers to determine patients’ response to gastric cancer treatment modalities (neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapies, surgical or immunotherapies).
- Artificial intelligence algorithms, or other digital tools, supporting the identification of clinically relevant patterns from a patient’s images and metadata, such as tumor aggressiveness, toxicity to treatment, response to treatment, etc.
Dr. Diana Noronha Nunes
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- gastric cancer
- non-invasive diagnostic methodologies
- biomarkers
- artificial intelligence
- digital pathology
- response to treatment
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