Molecular and Cellular Targets on Anticancer Research and Perspectives
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Oncology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2026 | Viewed by 1910
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Dear Colleagues,
Anticancer research remains the top priority in biomedical research.
Without doubt, artificial intelligence (AI) and new technologies are currently our best tools for scientific research, making the development of new, innovative strategies more feasible than ever before.
The National Cancer Institute defines oncologic precision medicine as the “use of specific information about a person’s tumor to help make a diagnosis, plan treatment, find out how well treatment is working, or make a prognosis”. Specific information about a person’s tumor includes the identification of specific molecules ("molecular targets") that are involved in the growth, progression, and spread of cancer.
All medical specialties and scientists must work together to reach our goal: to transform cancer from a lethal disease into a chronic disease. AI, personalized medicine, and new techniques (in both oncology and surgery) represent the driving force behind current basic and clinical research.
For this Special Issue, we invite the submission of original research and review papers on targeted cancer therapies, which can cover any malignancy.
Dr. Apostolos E. Papalois
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- anticancer
- molecular targets
- targeted cancer therapies
- malignancy
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