Gastrointestinal Cancers and Personalized Medicine
A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmacogenetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2021) | Viewed by 23072
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gastrointestinal cancers; tumor drug resistance; biomarkers; pharmacogenetics; pharmacogenomics; translational studies
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Interests: tumor drug resistance; pharmacological strategies to overcome drug resistance; biomarkers; pharmacogenetics; pharmacogenomics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Gastrointestinal cancers, such as esophageal and gastric cancers, pancreatic cancers, hepatobiliary cancers, colorectal cancers and gastrointestinal stromal tumors, are frequently diagnosed at an advanced stage and have a dismal prognosis. Even in patients with potentially curative cancer, nearly 50% will develop recurrent disease despite aggressive treatments. A number of biomarkers currently guide treatment decisions for patients with gastrointestinal neoplasms.
Major technological advances in genomics have made it possible to identify critical genetic alterations in cancer, rendering oncology well along the path to “personalized cancer medicine”. Future research efforts will focus on the identification of new biomarkers, moving existing biomarkers into earlier lines of therapy and evaluating new combinations of existing biomarkers and therapies.
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide an overview of exciting new research in the area of gastrointestinal tumours that may establish the stage for an innovative personalized management and precision medicine modalities for individualized care.
We are soliciting basic, original, translational, and clinical papers on personalized medicine in all gastrointestinal cancers, especially focusing on diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers as well as novel drug targets or targeted treatments, including eventual clinical trials.
Prof. Dr. Enrico Mini
Dr. Stefania Nobili
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gastrointestinal tumours
- biomarkers
- cancer pharmacogenomics
- diagnostic markers
- prognostic markers
- precision medicine
- individualized care
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