Gene and Cell Therapy for Cancers
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 1235
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to the heterogenous nature of cancer cells both among and within individual tumors, canonical cell and gene therapy approaches over the last few decades have focused on non-genetic approaches, such as enhancing cancer cell transduction, interfering with attributes of tumor physiology, and broad-based immunotherapy approaches. With the completion of The Cancer Genome Atlas Project, molecular characterization data are now publicly available for 33 different tumor types and contain more than 20,000 individual primary tumor samples. The availability of these data presents an intriguing and exciting opportunity for the broader cell and gene therapy community to identify common aberrant signaling networks in multiple tumor types and explore novel molecular-based targets for the development of potential therapeutics. This Special Issue welcomes all studies highlighting the potential for these new approaches and molecular targets for use in cancer gene and cell therapy applications.
Dr. Jacquelyn J. Bower
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cancer gene therapy
- cell therapy
- adeno-associated virus
- lentivirus
- immunotherapy
- oncolytic viruses
- cancer stem cells
- targeted therapy
- precision medicine
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