Recent Advances in Personalised Gastrointestinal Cancer Treatments
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Delivery and Controlled Release".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 588
Special Issue Editors
Interests: genetics; cell biology; cancer; colorectal cancer; spatial biology; drug delivery; gene therapy; cell therapy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent advances in our ability to understand and manipulate cancer have led to a plethora of new avenues for personalised medicine in gastrointestinal cancer treatment.
Such advances include the use of sophisticated 3D ex vivo models of tumour epithelium (organoids), their co-culture with immune and stromal cells, the development of complex genetically engineered mouse models of cancer, and the ability to unpack cell–cell interactions on slide using multiplex imaging platforms. Together, these models can be used to explore the efficacy of novel drug delivery systems, impact of chemotherapies, radiotherapy, gene therapy, and cell therapies, to name a few. For example, patient tumour-derived organoids can be used to screen multiple drugs ex vivo in order to unpack drug efficiency/resistance on a personalised level, or multiplex image analysis could be used to understand how the delivery of particular drugs is impacting the cellular ecology of the cancers. These advances in techniques and knowledge have the capabilities to inform clinical decision making and thus improve patient prognosis.
This Special Issue aims to collect advanced studies of personalised medicine potential in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancers. We welcome the submission of original research papers as well as review articles, with the aim of building a unique bank of knowledge which will be extremely useful to those working in the field. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me for more information.
Dr. Eoghan Joseph Mulholland
Dr. Emma McErlean
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gastrointestinal cancer
- genetics
- cell biology
- drug delivery
- personalised medicine
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