Molecular Mechanisms and Therapies of Pancreatic Cancer: 3rd Edition
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 June 2026 | Viewed by 587
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pancreatic cancer; cancer stem cells; tumor microenvironment; cancer metabolism; fibrosis; TGF-β signaling; target therapy; drug delivery systems
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Dear Colleagues,
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is one of the most aggressive solid malignancies, with an overall 5-year survival rate of ~8%, and it is predicted to become the second leading cause of cancer-related death by 2030. PC progression and metastasis are strongly influenced by metabolic stress imposed by the tumor microenvironment (TME) due to limited oxygen and nutrient supply and unfavorable pH. In this context, deregulation and reprogramming of energy metabolism are hallmarks of PC, which leads tumor cells to rewire their glucose, amino acid, and lipid metabolism on the basis of the bioenergetic and biosynthetic demands needed to survive and escape immunosurveillance. For this reason, exploiting cellular plasticity through targeted reprogramming of metabolic features in PC could lead to the generation of promising and novel selective therapeutic approaches for patients’ treatment.
This Special Issue was set up to encourage researchers to carry out studies on the following:
- Reprogramming of the intracellular metabolism of nutrients (including glucose, amino acids and lipids) to impact PC progression;
- Identification of novel pathways underlying metabolic reprogramming as therapeutic targets for PC;
- Exploitation of cancer cell plasticity to modulate chemoresistance;
- Shaping of the tumor microenvironment to sensitize cancer cells to chemotherapy.
Articles consisting exclusively of bioinformatics or computational analyses of public databases or pure clinical studies will not be accepted. Basic studies or translational studies including molecular characterizations of patients from real practice are welcome. Reviews are also appreciated.
Dr. Donatella Delle Cave
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pancreatic cancer
- metabolism
- cellular plasticity
- tumor microenvironment
- target therapy
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