The State of the Art in the Diagnosis, Staging, Treatment and Prognosis of Gastrointestinal and Urogenital Malignancies
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Research of Cancer".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 February 2025 | Viewed by 3706
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gastric cancer; diagnostics; inflammatory biomarkers; clinical outcomes
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Dear Colleagues,
Gastrointestinal and urogenital cancers are a highly diverse group of diseases, which, due to the lack of multiple specific symptoms in their early stages, are one of the most common causes of death in the world. Despite the constant development of diagnostic and therapeutic methods, the number of cancers is constantly growing, and thus causes a huge physical, emotional and financial burden both for individuals and healthcare systems. Gastric cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide, whereas prostate cancer is the second most common malignancy among men. The main reason for treatment failure in patients with gastric cancer is a late diagnosis, with many patients not presenting any symptoms in advanced stages. Moreover, the occurrence of chemoresistance and the presence of metastases are important factors leading to the death of oncological patients. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop new diagnostic and prognostic alternatives, as well as innovative therapeutic approaches that would, on the one hand, allow for the early detection of cancer and, on the other hand, would predict the behavior of the cancer and the risk of recurrence of the disease.
We are pleased to invite you to submit articles related to the aim of this Special Issue, which includes, among others, issues regarding advances in biomarkers to determine cancer diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic options in gastrointestinal cancers (esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer and colorectal cancer) and urogenital cancers (bladder cancer, kidney cancer, prostate cancer and testicular cancer).
In this Special Issue, we encourage authors to publish basic and clinical research manuscripts, and we will accept both original research and review articles.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Agnieszka Kulczyńska-Przybik
Dr. Sara Pączek
Guest Editors
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