Advances in Thoracic Oncology Research
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 November 2025 | Viewed by 1478
Special Issue Editor
Interests: lung cancer; mediastinal neoplasms; mesothelioma; pleural disease; less invasive techniques; induction therapies
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Dear Colleagues,
The last decade has been characterized by significant changes in the diagnosis and therapy in the field of thoracic oncology, with medical oncologists and thoracic surgeons approaching the treatment of thoracic malignancies with new diagnostic and therapeutic tools. The wide and diffuse use of biomarker tests led medical oncologists to provide targeted and personalized therapies (i.e., tyrosine kinase inhibitors and/or immune checkpoint inhibitors) both for early and advanced lung cancer stages, which led to promising results in terms of long-term survival. From a surgical point of view, new emerging tools in both surgical practice (less invasive techniques, robotic approaches, etc.) and in postoperative management have demonstrated large benefits for the patients. Radiation therapy has also played an important role in the treatment of chest tumors more often within a multidisciplinary program.
This Special Issue of Cancers will focus on advances in thoracic oncology research, providing an overview of recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer (from early stages to advanced non-small-cell lung cancer and neuroendocrine tumors), mediastinal tumors (including thymic neoplasms—thymoma, thymic carcinoma, rare thymic tumors, and endothoracic neurogenic neoplasms), neoplasm of the pleura (primary one, as mesothelioma, or secondary) and tumors of the chest wall.
We encourage all colleagues (surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and radiologists) to contribute original research articles and reviews to this Special Issue.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Domenico Galetta
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- lung cancer
- mediastinal
- thymic
- neuroendocrine
- robotic
- VATS
- chest wall
- chemotherapy
- immunotherapy
- radiotherapy
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