Personalizing Treatment in Cancer Patients: Improving Patient Outcomes

Dear Colleagues,

Cancer patients still experience treatment-induced toxicities despite treatment advancement. Thus, shifting from current reactive supportive care strategies to more proactive ones to optimize patient-centered care. For more effective personalized cancer care, we need to determine the individualized risk of treatment-induced toxicities by incorporating patient perspectives via patient-reported outcomes, biomarkers, and imaging features in toxicity prediction models.

In the era of personalized cancer care, advanced imaging, genomic techniques, and biomarkers could be used for toxicity risk stratification to choose between multimodal therapies.

This Special Issue aims to provide evidence-based data to support incorporating patient-reported outcomes, image features, and biomarkers in toxicity risk prediction models to improve patient outcomes during and after cancer treatment.

Dr. Mona K. Jomaa
Guest Editor

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