Curative Therapies for Non-Small and Small Cell Lung Cancers
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 23
Special Issue Editor
Interests: lung cancer; radiotherapy; surgery; immunotherapy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of Cancers, I would like to announce a call for articles for a Special Issue entitled “Curative Therapies for Non-Small and Small Cell Lung Cancers”. In this rapidly changing world of lung cancer therapeutics, we are witnessing patients living much longer lives. At Cancers, we recognize that, in the last decade, we have observed a remarkable increase in patient survival due to increased lung cancer screening, better staging, and the refinement of techniques for surgery and radiotherapy, as well as the growing armamentarium of systemic therapies, including tyrosine
kinase inhibitors for actionable mutations, immunotherapy with or without chemotherapy, and anti-angiogenic therapy combined with immunotherapy. We will be considering all options for “curative” therapy, including lung cancer screening/staging techniques, neo-adjuvant/adjuvant therapy for resectable disease, treatments for locally advanced disease, local therapies for oligometastatic disease (de novo, recurrent or persistent), as well as the long-term curative potential of systemic therapies.
Dr. John Michael Varlotto
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- radiotherapy
- surgery
- early stage NSCLC
- oligometastases
- immunotherapy
- small-cell lung cancer
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