Innovation through Tradition: The Current Challenges in Cancer Treatment 2.0
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 28405
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cell signaling and signal transduction; cell cycle and growth; cancer therapy; naturally occurring molecules
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Interests: molecular mechanisms in cancer systems; target therapy; anticancer compounds; cell death and autophagy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is the continuation of our previous Special Issue "Innovation through Tradition: The Current Challenges in Cancer Treatment ". Enthused by the reception of our previous SI, we agreed to continue this Special Issue with a volume II this year.
Neoplastic diseases currently represent the second-leading cause of death worldwide. Despite the huge effort to improve both progression-free and overall survival, this tendency is expected to worsen significantly, rendering cancer a major future economic and health concern.
Assuming malignancy eradication as “a utopian dream”, our intent remains to make cancer a chronic condition, which could be achieved more easily by presenting new therapeutic approaches.
In view of the abovementioned goal, this Special Issue was conceived to provide more options in cancer treatment and expectation. Specifically, we aim to gather the latest research papers and up-to-date review articles focusing on unique tumour-related structural weaknesses, including genetic, metabolic, and pharmacological vulnerabilities.
Innovative technological and methodological strategies certainly constitute our topic of interest, but we are also interested in canonical approaches that have a direct impact on the course and outcome of the illness. Identifying new formulations of existing antineoplastic compounds capable of increasing the effectiveness and reducing the toxicity as well as recognizing new therapeutic partners, natural or synthetic molecules useful for improving performances, represent some “traditional” aspects that we intend to embrace.
Among the already published original articles, for instance, Salzillo et al. proposed Chlorogenic Acid (CGA) as a promising chemosensitizer and cardioprotective agent in Osteosarcoma therapy, recognizing p44/42 MAPK pathway as relevantly involved in CGA-mediated Doxorubicin susceptibility. Latypova and colleagues, instead, designed a series of heterocyclic compounds having cytotoxic effects against different cancer cell lines. Additionally, Schmitz and co-workers recognized murine cell line L929 as an in vitro system for the rapid analysis of Methionine restriction (MetR). Using liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis, they defined a metabolic fingerprint and identified specific metabolites representing normal or MetR conditions, providing a rapid and efficient model for testing potential cancer metabolic targets.
In accordance with the aims and scope of IJMS, we kindly encourage the submission of molecular studies in the biology, chemistry, and medicine fields. Moreover, review articles on fascinating topics in cancer therapy will be considered meticulously.
Prof. Dr. Silvio Naviglio
Dr. Luigi Sapio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cancer biology
- tumor-related vulnerabilities
- novel therapeutic approaches
- molecular biology and molecular medicine
- omics analysis
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