Immunoediting in Cancer Therapies
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 715
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cancer cells develop immune escape or avoidance characteristics to achieve uninterrupted growth, proliferation, and metastasis or spread to distant organs. This immune escape of cancer cells is called cancer immunosurveillance. In addition to cancer immunosurveillance, which is only one dimension of a cancer and immune system relationship. For example, along with cancer immunosurveillance, they also induce a process called cancer immunoediting, where cancer cells modify the anti-tumor immune response and immune cells to support their growth, proliferation and metastasis. The cancer immunoediting phase comprises three potential Es: elimination, equilibrium and escape. The elimination phase comprises classical immunosurveillance, the equilibrium phase comprises the period of immune-mediated latency due to incomplete destruction of cancer cells during the elimination phase, and the escape phase includes final tumor growth by overcoming/limiting the antitumor immune response during the equilibrium phase. Thus, understanding cancer immunoediting is critical to develop novel immunomodulatory and immunotherapies. This Special Issue is a good platform for researchers involved in cancer immunotherapies and understating the cancer immunoediting to design better immunotherapies.
Dr. Vijay Kumar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cancer
- cancer immunology
- immunosurveillance
- immunoediting
- immunotherapy
- immunomodulation
- immunometabolism
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