Colorectal Cancers
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2019) | Viewed by 151567
Special Issue Editor
Interests: colorectal cancer; integrins and cell-extracellular matrix interactions; oncogenes; transcription; biomarkers
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Dear Colleagues,
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide, and it is predicted that the number of cases will continue to rise over the next 20 years. Despite the recent progress in screening techniques and the improvements in treatments, bowel cancer remains a significant cause of cancer mortality. A better comprehension of the cellular and molecular bases underlying colorectal neoplasm initiation and progression, from adenoma to metastasis, is crucial to establishing non-invasive, efficient detection tests for the identification of lesions at early stages, as well as for refining the current therapeutic approaches and developing new ones useful in advanced stages of the disease.
In this Special Issue, we aim to cover all aspects of colorectal cancer research. To this end, we welcome articles on basic, preclinical, and clinical research on colorectal cancer.
Prof. Dr. Jean-Francois Beaulieu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- advances in early detection of colorectal lesions
- biomarkers for assessing colorectal cancer
- colorectal cancer stem cells
- colorectal carcinogenesis and metastasis
- colorectal tumor microenvironment
- drug delivery to colorectal cancer cells
- epigenetics of colorectal cancer
- genetics and genomics of colorectal cancer
- imaging of colorectal lesions
- inflammatory bowel diseases and colorectal carcinogenesis
- microbiome and colorectal cancer
- molecular targeted therapies for colorectal cancer
- mouse models of colorectal cancer
- precision medicine for colorectal cancer
- signaling pathways in colorectal cancer cells
- subtyping/molecular profiling of colorectal lesions
- therapeutic approaches to colorectal cancer
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