Colorectal Cancer: New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Biology and Oncology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 57625
Special Issue Editors
Interests: colorectal cancer; general surgery; screening; biomarkers; quality of life; liquid biopsy; microbiota
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Interests: colorectal cancer; elderly care; nutrition; quality of life; liquid biopsy; cancer biomarkers; microbiota
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, “Colorectal Cancer: New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches”, will mainly focus on novel and promising tools for the management of colorectal cancer (CRC). Nowadays, research is moving towards the detection of accurate and personalized biomarkers with high specificity and sensitivity in patients with CRC, by means of the so-called “liquid biopsy”. Liquid biopsies have been demonstrated to improve CRC screening and diagnosis, predict relapse and metastasis, and allow assessment of minimal residual disease and resistance to chemotherapy. Furthermore, gut microbiota have shown potential utility in the diagnosis and treatment of CRC. The host−microbe interplay in CRC and the promotion of homeostatic immune response using microbe-targeted therapies could be helpful in preventing and/or treating CRC development. There is an essential need for new therapeutic approaches in patients with CRC, such as the development of more active and tolerable chemotherapy regimens that could help us overcome some of the therapeutic challenges of CRC.
We invite authors to submit original research and review articles that focus on this significant and fast-progressing field of medicine.Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Liquid biopsy
- Biomarkers
- The role of gut microbiota in the diagnosis and treatment of CRC
- Diagnosis and therapy of CRC
- Recent advances in CRC therapies
Dr. Marco Vacante
Prof. Dr. Antonio Biondi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomarkers
- liquid biopsy
- microbiota
- screening
- chemotherapy
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