Innovations in Soft Tissue Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment
This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Causes, Screening and Diagnosis".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent advances in genetic screening, molecular profiling, targeted therapy, gene therapy and immunotherapy for soft tissue sarcomas (STS) have evoked increasing optimism in the medical and scientific community. Hence, it is time to reflect on the many faces of STS and current innovations in its diagnosis and treatment. STS is a rare cancer involving mesodermal tissues. Surgical resection is the standard of care for localized disease, but its recurrence rate is high and the prognosis for advanced STS is poor, with a median survival of 8–13 months.
This Special Issue entitled "Innovations in Soft Tissue Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment" will include review articles, original clinical and translational research articles that are hypothesis-generating toward the development of precision medicine for STS.
Dr. Erlinda M. Gordon
Dr. Sant P. Chawla
Dr. Frederick L. Hall
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soft tissue sarcoma
- gene therapy
- natural killer cell therapy
- immune and cell-cycle checkpoint inhibitors
- targeted therapy
- Genetics
- Genomics
- Surgery
- Radiologic Imaging
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Published Papers
Cancers - ISSN 2072-6694