Thymic Tumors: New Developments and Future Directions in Molecularly Informed Therapies
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2023) | Viewed by 15665
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mediastinal pathology; thymoma; thymic carcinoma; neuroendocrine tumors; soft tissue sarcomas
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Thymomas (TM) and thymic carcinomas (TC) are among the adult tumors with the lowest mutational burden, and the oncogenic drivers behind these neoplasms are currently unknown. After more than a decade of molecularly informed therapies, patients with thymomas (TM) and thymic carcinomas (TC) have experienced limited benefits from the latest developments, and the optimal therapy for these tumors remains to be defined. The tumor heterogeneity and profound biological differences between TM and TC necessitate subtype-specific tailored approaches. Due to the rarity of TM and TC, only a few prospective clinical trials have been conducted, often with disappointing results. It is thus of crucial importance that future clinical trials use the best current evidence and all available information.
In this Special Issue, experts in the field will review the status quo of basic research and of the medical treatment of TM and TC, and will suggest directions for future research and informed clinical trials.
Prof. Dr. Philipp Ströbel
Prof. Dr. Alexander Marx
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thymoma
- thymic carcinoma
- molecular biology
- pathology
- translation
- clinical trial
- immune therapy
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