Rare Cancers, Diagnostic Challenges and Personalized Therapeutic Approaches in the 21st Century (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2026 | Viewed by 233
Special Issue Editor
Interests: computational cancer genomics; next generation sequencing; targeted therapy; immunotherapy; target discovery; drug repurposing; rare cancers
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is a continuation of our previous one, entitled "Rare Cancers, Diagnostic Challenges and Personalized Therapeutic Approaches in the 21st Century”.
Rare cancers, as defined by the National Cancer Institute in the US, have an incidence of less than 15 cases per 100,000 people per annum. They comprise about 200 cancer types, and nearly one-fourth of all new cancer cases in the US are rare. Because of the low case counts, studying rare cancers represents a challenge. This is reflected by a limited understanding of their biology, challenges with diagnosis and classification, non-uniform standards of care, and generally poor outcomes. Personalized therapeutic approaches, based on advances in cancer biology and novel markers, are yielding promising changes to this landscape. In this Special Issue, we invite researchers to submit original research manuscripts and reviews on diagnostic challenges, advances in cancer biology, and novel therapeutic approaches to rare cancers.
Dr. Jason Roszik
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- rare cancer
- biology
- diagnosis
- classification
- personalized therapeutics
- markers
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