Towards New Promising Discoveries for Lung Cancer Patients: A Selection of Papers from the First Joint Meeting on Lung Cancer of the FHU OncoAge (Nice, France) and the MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX, USA)
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2019) | Viewed by 88970
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Interests: non-coding RNA; microRNA; cancer; metastasis
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Interests: predictive biomarkers in lung cancer; liquid biopsy; molecular biology; artificial intelligence
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Interests: EMT; cancer stem cells
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Cancers will consist of selected papers from the First Annual Joint Meeting on Lung Cancer of the FHU OncoAge (www.oncoage.org, University of Côte d’Azur) and the MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC, University of Texas, Houston, USA), taking place in Nice (France), on 6–7 September, 2018. The FHU OncoAge was established in 2015 to bring together scientists and physicians with a shared interest in aging-related cancers, in particular, lung cancer, but also thoracic pre-neoplastic diseases, such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), and to provide a platform for improving research, patients health care and training for fighting age-related pathologies. In this context, a partnership with research groups, scientists and physicians between FHU OncoAge and the MD Anderson Cancer Center has been created to work in the context of age-related lung cancer and non-tumor lung diseases because both age-related chronic diseases and cancer share genomic, immune, metabolic and other biological abnormalities. Moreover, theses lung pathologies associate similar conditions inducing cellular senescence, genomic instability, oxidative stress, DNA damage, dysfunction of mitochondria, etc. Moreover, deciphering the clinical features, the biological markers, the environmental factors that are shared between chronic age-related lung pathologies and lung cancers will lead to the development of rational new clinical practices, including the validation of surrogate biomarkers of predictive response to new therapies, but also the validation of active preventive strategies. The cooperation between the FHU OncoAge and the MDACC will ensure the implementation of innovative projects. This international conference represents a major event for the medical and scientific community working on lung cancer and promises to be an inspiring meeting. Particular attention will be given to new advances in biomarker development and novel therapeutic strategies for new pathophysiological concepts.
This Special Issue will cover new and novel areas of research pertaining to lung cancer presented in this two-day conference. This issue will represent state-of-the-art and up-to-date coverage of progress dedicated to the pathology of lung cancer.
Prof. Dr. Georges A Calin
Prof. Dr. Paul Hofman
Dr. Sendurai A. Mani
Guest Editors
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