Personalized Therapy and Clinical Outcome for Lung Cancer
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Pulmonology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 2922
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Personalized drug treatment based on biomarker-derived evidence of molecular pathway and oncogene addiction is essential for lung cancer therapy. Recently, the development of immune-checkpoint inhibitors has dramatically altered the strategy of lung cancer treatment. Although these drugs have significantly improved the clinical outcome of lung cancer, conventional therapies such as surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy still have crucial roles. Given the development of systemic therapy, local therapy is no longer limited to early-stage cancer and can be applied to advanced cancer with oligometastasis. Systemic and/or local therapy should be ‘personalized’ considering patient’s conditions in terms of age, comorbidity, and nutrition status as well as cancer stage and biomarkers.
This Special Issue on “Personalized Therapy and Clinical Outcome for lung Cancer” aims to provide recent information based on both translational studies and clinical trials. For this purpose, we invite investigators to submit original research articles and systematic reviews that will help readers to understand and develop personalized strategies for lung cancer treatment, including systemic therapy, surgery, and radiotherapy.
Dr. Atsushi Hata
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Lung cancer therapy
- personalized therapy
- targeted therapy
- surgery
- radiotherapy
- molecular targeted drug
- biomarkers
- combination therapy
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