Gastric Cancers: Molecular Mechanisms, Novel Targets and Immunotherapies: From Bench to Clinical Therapeutics
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Cancer Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 July 2024) | Viewed by 13090
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gastroesophageal cancer; cancer stem cells; immunotherapy; tumor microenvironment; peritoneal metastases
Interests: gastroesophageal cancer; peritoneal carcinoma of GI origin; clinical trials; multidisciplinary care; multimodality therapy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a Special Issue in MDPI Cancers (5-Year Impact
Factor: 6.886 (2021)) focusing on gastric cancers (GC). This Special Issue welcomes a broad spectrum of research, from very basic molecular biology to translational research, covering novel techniques/methods, novel onco-targets, and novel targets on tumor microenvironments, including tumor-associated macrophages (TAM), cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), as well as immunosuppressive myeloid cells that potentially translate into clinics. This Special Issue aims to cover multiple facets, from multidisciplinary research to clinical applications.
Novel techniques such as CRISPR-based genome-wide screening, de novo targets of genes and splice variants, new ideas and methodologies, and novel targets in TME, including CAFs and macrophages, are welcome. Immunotherapy has offered a great therapeutic potential for GC patients as well as in a broad spectrum of other cancers; however, further research is needed in novel immuno-target therapy. Crosstalk among tumor cells, immune cells, and stroma signaling may promise more positive therapeutic targets. New ideas and methodologies may open a new world for researchers to better understand neoplasm, oncogenesis, and metastasis.
We invite the submission of great works from basic scientists, basic/clinical researchers involved in translational studies, and clinicians.
We welcome original research papers and reviews focusing on gastric cancer. Research areas may include but are not limited to the following:
- Discovery of new targets of gene, splice variants, RNAs;
- Cancer/stroma, immune cells crosstalk, tumor microenvironment;
- Immune biomarker and immunotherapy;
- New therapeutic modality and clinical trials;
- RNAseq, WES, exosomes, proteomics, organoids;
- Epigenomics, spatial transcriptomics.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Shumei Song
Prof. Dr. Jaffer A. Ajani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- novel oncogene targets
- interplays among cancer, stroma, immune cells
- tumor microenvironment (TME)
- immune biomarker
- immunotherapy
- new therapeutic modality
- translational research
- clinical trials
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