The Next Cutting-Edge Technologies in Abdominal Solid Tumor Treatment
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Methods and Technologies Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2026 | Viewed by 246
Special Issue Editors
2. Jerome Canady Research Institute for Advanced Biological and Technological Sciences, Takoma Park, MD, USA
3. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Interests: cold atmospheric plasma therapy; complex multi-visceral abdominal tumor resection and cytoreductive surgery; plasma immunotherapy
Interests: cold atmospheric plasma therapy; plasma immunotherapy
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Interests: cytoreductive surgery; PIPAC; cold atmospheric plasma; surgical treatment of intra-abdominal tumors
Interests: applied research in plasma medicine; plasma nanoscience; nanotechnology; cold plasma application for wound healing; cold plasma cancer therapy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue of Cancers titled “The Next Cutting-Edge Technologies in Abdominal Solid Tumor Treatment”.
This Special Issue will focus on multimodal approaches for the treatment of complex and advanced abdominal solid tumors using advanced technologies and surgical techniques such as cold atmospheric plasma, precision guided ai-robotic delivery of cold plasma, cytoreductive surgery, irreversible electroporation (IRE), hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC), pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol CAP (PIP-CAP) and transplant oncology.
Abdominal solid tumors—such as pancreatic, hepatic, ovarian, gastric, and colon cancers—pose major surgical challenges due to their complex microenvironment and high recurrence rates.
We welcome both original research articles and reviews. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following fields:
- The role of cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) in abdominal cancer treatment: mechanistic study of CAP induced apoptosis, immune modulation, and tumor redox biology;
- Study of CAP in relation to irreversible electroporation and with pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol;
- AI-Guided robotic CAP precision surgery;
- Cytoreductive surgery, HIPEC, and PIPAC;
- Multi-visceral surgical resection for complex abdominal tumors;
- Transplant surgical oncology;
- Immunological and molecular biomarker discovery in abdominal tumors.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Jerome Canady
Dr. Saravana R.K. Murthy
Prof. Dr. Aviram Nissan
Prof. Dr. Michael Keidar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multi-visceral surgical resection for complex advanced gastrointestinal tumors
- cytoreductive surgery
- colon and gynecological cancers
- pancreatic cancer
- cold atmospheric plasma (CAP)
- robotic AI CAP surgical delivery systems
- targeted immunotherapies
- irreversible electroporation
- HIPEC (hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy)
- PIPAC (pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy)
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