The Application of Biostatistics in Cancers

Dear Colleagues,

Cancer research relies heavily on a broad application of statistical methods, ranging from the epidemiological methods necessary for establishing links between exposures and cancer risks to the development of elaborate designs of clinical trials for testing potential drugs. In recent years, sophisticated machine learning techniques, which in many cases are synonymous with statistical models, have also been used for the discovery of novel cancer subtypes based on -omics technologies, as well as the prediction of patient trajectories based on big clinical data.

For this Special Issue in Cancers, we invite submissions related to the development of or novel applications of statistical methodology with a specific aim of addressing challenges in cancer research. The focus of the submissions should be on the methodology, but with a clear and useful application on cancer research data.

Dr. Cascione Luciano
Dr. Francesco Denti
Dr. Antonietta Mira
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.