Advances in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer: New Perspectives Promising Hope for Eradicating a Devastating Disease
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Causes, Screening and Diagnosis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 12
Special Issue Editor
Interests: ovarian cancer; drug repurposing; ovarian cancer development; immunogenic cell death; ER stress
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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to invite you to submit original research articles and reviews in the field of high-grade serous ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Within the histotypes of ovarian cancer, high-grade serous is the most common and aggressive form, accounting for approximately 70-75% of all ovarian cancer cases, often originating in the fallopian tubes and characterized by rapid progression and poor prognosis. This disease is habitually diagnosed at an advanced stage due to vague symptoms. Treatment usually involves a combination of surgery and chemotherapy with platinum derivatives. This therapy is initially often efficient. However, the disease almost always relapses with a platinum-resistant phenotype (also known as platinum-resistant ovarian cancer or PROC). Once they develop PROC, patients receive therapies that are poorly effective, leading to a median overall survival of only 12 months. This Special Issue intends to bring to the readers novel information related to risk factors, prevention, symptoms, screening, early diagnosis and management, epidemiology, optimization of standard of care, recurrent platinum-resistant disease management, novel therapeutic approaches including repurposed drugs and vaccines, use of artificial intelligence for diagnosis and treatment, life expectancy, quality of life, and prognosis. The overall survival rate of the disease is very poor, with only about 30% of women surviving five years after diagnosis. Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop tools for better disease prevention, early detection, new maintenance therapies to keep the tumours dormant after initial successful chemotherapy, and effective therapies to re-sensitize PROC to chemotherapy. With the development of new technologies worldwide, there is hope to significantly improve the five-year survival rate of this devastating disease and promise to eventually cause its eradication.
I look forward to receiving your contributions,
Prof. Dr. Carlos M. Telleria
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- high-grade serous ovarian cancer
- risk factors
- prevention
- early detection
- symptoms
- screening
- standard of care
- platinum resistant ovarian cancer
- novel therapeutic approaches
- drug repositioning
- artificial intelligence
- life expectancy, quality of life, and prognosis
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