Advances in Anticancer Drugs and Pharmacotherapy of Cancer
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Drug Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2023) | Viewed by 71618
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mixed-methods; health services research; medication safety; adherence
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Interests: pharmaceutical technology; drug safety and efficacy; drug delivery; antibiotic resistance; infectious diseases; cancer biology; medicinal plants
Interests: natural products; microbial drug discovery; molecular oncology; ethnopharmacology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The pharmacotherapy of cancer has experienced some encouraging novel developments. A new armamentarium of anticancer drugs and their delivery have led to improvements not only in efficacy and safety profiles but also the quality of life both pre and post treatment.
The regulatory approval of several new targeted immunotherapies indicates their success in clinical trials for treating multiple types of cancer. Using a targeted immunotherapy approach, oncologists can firstly screen for protein or genetic abnormalities in a patient’s tumor and then match those with appropriate immunotherapies. Immunotherapy boosts the body’s immune system to attack cancer cells through applications of CAR T-cell therapy, immune checkpoint inhibitors, monoclonal antibodies, treatment vaccines, and immune system modulators.
In terms of drug delivery systems, the use of innovative chemotherapy delivery systems, such as pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC), has significantly reduced the severity of the side effects of systematically delivered chemotherapy. Pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC) is a novel technique delivering normothermic chemotherapy into the abdominal cavity as an aerosol under pressure. Early stage trials involved administering intraperitoneal chemotherapy to multiple areas of metastasis in the abdominal area. The involved tumors normally consist of small nodules that have proliferated to such a widespread extent that they are challenging to treat using surgical incision. Likewise, conventional intravenous chemotherapy is inferior when compared with PIPAC, which applies the same standard technique used in diagnostic laparoscopy. Such direct delivery of anticancer drugs into the abdomen via a nebulizer pen, channeling an aerosolized form of chemotherapy deep into the abdominal crevices, ensures that residual drugs are subsequently removed.
This Special Issue of Cancers will cover theoretical and applied aspects of cancer drug discovery, formulation, product development, and clinical practices. Submissions presenting research related to chemical identification, in vitro/in vivo/in silico evaluation of anticancer agents, including natural products, or complementary medicine in original research and review articles are welcome.
Dr. Muhammad Abdul Hadi
Dr. Md. Sanower Hossain
Dr. Bey-Hing Goh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
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anticancer drugs
- hormone therapy
- immunotherapy
- complementary medicine
- dosage form design
- chemotherapy
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