Symptom Management in Cancer Care

Dear Colleagues,

Symptom management is a critical component of cancer care, as patients frequently experience complex physical, psychological, and treatment-related symptoms throughout the course of their illness. Even with major advances in precision oncology, immunotherapy, and supportive care, many individuals continue to face symptom burdens that affect quality of life, daily functioning, and treatment adherence. Growing use of patient-reported outcome measures, digital symptom monitoring, and multidisciplinary supportive care strategies offers new opportunities to detect and address symptoms earlier and more effectively.

This Special Issue of Cancers, titled “Symptom Management in Cancer Care,” aims to showcase current research and emerging clinical insights that improve symptom assessment and intervention. We invite submissions of original studies, clinical trials, translational research, implementation science, and comprehensive reviews focused on understanding symptom mechanisms, optimizing supportive care, and integrating symptom management into routine oncology practice. By bringing together diverse perspectives, this Special Issue seeks to promote more proactive, personalized, and patient-centered approaches that enhance the lived experience of people with cancer.

This Special Issue will cover, but is not limited to, the following key areas that have transformed the field over the past five years:

• Impact of symptom burden on patients and their families
• Multi-symptom assessment and management (such as symptom clusters)  
• Patient-centered empowerment strategies for symptom management
• Digital health and technology-enabled care
• Evidence-based symptom interventions
• Palliative and supportive care integration
• Survivorship and long-term symptom management

Dr. Lena Lee
Dr. Joosun Shin
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Cancers is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.