Molecular Mechanisms in Cancer Metastasis II
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
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Dear Colleagues,
Cancer metastasis is the leading cause of death globally. Even if diagnostics in primary cancer is developed, there is an urgent need to understand whether the cancer is localized or has already spread to other organs. The progressive growth of metastases is often resistant to conventional therapies. Understanding the characteristic differences in molecular and cellular biology between primary cancer and metastatic lesions is essential for effective cancer treatment. This Special Issue, “Molecular Mechanisms in Cancer Metastasis”, is a part of the Section ‘’Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics’’ in IJMS. Our primary goals of cancer research are technical and instrumental development to address molecular mechanisms in cancer metastasis based on genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, in vivo and in vitro, and the establishment of a cancer metastasis model in experimental animals and molecular imaging techniques in cancer cells and their environment, including other cells and an extracellular matrix. Metastases can be characterized not only by cancer cells but also by environmental factors, including immune cells, stroma cells, secretion vesicles, and the extracellular matrix, but to identify and detect cancer diagnostic biomarkers is still challenging. The scope of this Special Issue is to approach the pathogenesis in cancer metastasis multilaterally. We welcome full-length original articles and review papers for cancer research in both in vitro and in vivo assay of tumor tissues to reveal the metastasis process and to evaluate the therapeutic effects of anticancer drugs and their drug delivery toward the clinical application of the technique.
Dr. Yusuke Oshima
Guest Editor
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