Clinical Pathology of Lung Cancer (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Research of Cancer".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 730
Special Issue Editor
Interests: lung cancer; pathology; diagnosis; treatment; targeted therapies; immunotherapy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is the second edition of our previous one, entitled "Clinical Pathology of Lung Cancer" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cancers/special_issues/S07XDE88CP).
Lung cancer is one of the most common causes of death due to cancer in men and women. Tobacco is the principal cause of lung cancer, but other causes include environmental exposure, asbestos, radon, exposure to ionizing radiation, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Radiotherapy has also been proposed as a possible contributory cause in patients treated for breast cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma.
On suspicion of lung cancer, CT imaging is necessary to guide diagnosis. Tissue biopsy is mandatory to determine the histological tumor type, and this guides both the molecular investigations and the biomarkers performed. Once the diagnosis has been made, it is desirable to perform a PET scan to understand the extent of the disease and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to assess if there are brain metastases and complete the disease staging.
Early diagnosis and the therapeutic innovations which have appeared in recent years (targeted therapies or different modalities of immunotherapy) have changed the therapeutic approach and also the course of the disease. At the same time, current therapies have highlighted new toxicities and resistances that increasingly lead to re-biopsy and liquid biopsy for the evaluation of minimal residual disease too.
For all these reasons, we believe that this Special Issue will be of interest to all medical specialties that contribute to the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer.
Dr. Letizia Gnetti
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- lung cancer
- pathology
- diagnosis
- treatment
- targeted therapies
- immunotherapy
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