Inflammation, Immunity, and Cancer Progression: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 August 2025 | Viewed by 48
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chronic inflammation plays a significant role in cancer initiation, progression, metastasis, and chemoresistance. Additionally, cancer-related inflammation is the seventh hallmark of cancer and is associated with genetic instability. Genomic and epigenomic mechanisms are essential in the establishment of cellular programs in cancer and immune cells. The dysregulation of these mechanisms contributes to tumor growth. Transcriptional and epigenetic changes during inflammatory conditions have revealed histone modifications and transcriptional signatures that define the dysregulation of cellular function in cancer and immune cells. Eventually, discovering a core set of regulators that can regulate functions in these cells, such as transcription factors, epigenetic regulatory molecules, and signaling molecules, may be sufficient to help reprogram terminally differentiated immune cells. Such findings are certainly having an impact on immune cell-based therapies.
Recent advances in cancer and immune cell genomics and immune cell engineering have therapeutic implications and provide discourse on the challenges and perspectives associated with the emerging role of transcriptional, epigenetic, and metabolic regulation in cancer and immunity.
This Special Issue will highlight the latest experimental advances and technical developments in genomics and epigenomics, gene editing, gene delivery, and therapeutic approaches for studying immune regulation in immune-mediated diseases, including autoimmunity and cancer. The aim of this Special Issue is to address this broad field through a series of high-quality, multidisciplinary research articles that discuss a range of subjects regarding the transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of inflammation during cancer and immunity. We will consider original research, methodology, review articles, and short reports.
This Special Issue welcomes the submission of outstanding contributions to the fields of cancer and immunity that include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Inflammation in cancer immunity;
- Transcriptional and epigenetic regulations in cancer cells and immune cell differentiation and development;
- Transcriptomics and epigenomics of immune-mediated diseases;
- Immunometabolism;
- Pharmacogenomic of diseases;
- Integration of Bioinformatics Data.
Dr. Deepak Parashar
Dr. Vivek K. Kashyap
Dr. Subhash Tripathi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- inflammation
- cancer immunity
- transcriptomics
- epigenomics
- immunometabolism
- pharmacogenomic
- bioinformatics data
- immunopharmacogenomics
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