Personalized Radiation Therapy for Cancers: Current Status and Future Perspectives
A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Methodology, Drug and Device Discovery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 January 2025 | Viewed by 170
Special Issue Editors
Interests: radiation oncology; personalized oncology; radiomics; stereotactic radiotherapy; breast cancer; prostate cancer; head and neck cancer
2. Department of Medicine and Surgery, LUM University, 70010 Bari, Italy
Interests: radiation oncology; personalized oncology; stereotactic radiotherapy; reirradiation; neuro-oncology; breast cancer; prostate cancer
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Dear Colleagues,
In the era of personalized oncology, a significant improvement in patient outcomes has been achieved thanks to a favorable combination of modern knowledge on cancer (i.e., cancer-related genomic and immunological profiles, tumor microenvironment of the primary and metastatic sites, clinicopathological and imaging features predictive of clinical outcomes), technological advances in the diagnostic and radiation oncology fields, as well as recent insights in radiobiology.
Nowadays, a multidisciplinary, integrated approach to cancer patients leads to selecting treatments according to disease-specific proliferating pathways and obtaining synergistic effects between radiotherapy and immunotherapy or targeted therapies.
Furthermore, modern radiation oncology allows higher conformity treatments, adaptive approaches, and salvage/ablative re-irradiation of recurrences, with a significant impact on disease control and patients' quality of life.
This Special Issue will address the current advances and future perspectives in the field of personalized radiation oncology, underscoring the relevance of multidisciplinary evaluations to improve tailored treatments and enhance cancer patients’ outcomes.
Dr. Roberta Carbonara
Dr. Alba Fiorentino
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- personalized radiotherapy
- personalized oncology
- adaptive radiotherapy
- stereotactic radiotherapy
- re-irradiation
- immuno-radiotherapy
- tumor microenvironment and radiotherapy
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