Gender Differences and Diversity in the Treatment of Gastric Cancer and Other Malignancies
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Gastroenterology & Hepatopancreatobiliary Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gastric cancer; upper GI (tract); gender medicine; acute abdominal pain; appendicitis; emergency surgery; colorectal surgery; surgical teaching
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Interests: immune response of Helicobacter pylori infection as a model of GI infection; mucosal immunology/bacterially induced inflammation; TFF peptide within the stomach/gastric mucosa as well as the whole GI tract; research on clinical care; surgical quality assurance; acute pancreatitis; oncosurgery; cancer genetics; gastrointestinal stroma tumors and further rare tumor lesions/growth; coincidence of malignant tumor lesions/growth; surgical aspects of gender medicine; surgical teaching/research on surgical teaching; hospital, quality, and risk management; scientific publishing in human medicine; editorial assistance
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Dear Colleagues,
Gastric cancer has declined in recent years but remains the fifth most common cancer in Germany and the second most common worldwide. Over the past few decades, there have been some significant changes in the treatment and therapy. Gastric cancer, once considered difficult to treat with medication, can now be treated with chemotherapy.
This has already made its way into neoadjuvant, adjuvant, and palliative treatment regimens.
There have also been changes in the surgical treatment; metastatic stomach cancer is no longer considered fatal. This, of course, only applies to limited metastases, e.g., oligometastasis of the liver.
There have also been subdivisions into subgroups, for example, with regard to the course of the disease in different age groups. The targeted investigation of specific characteristics in women has so far played a minor role. Evidence of gender differences has been available for some time. Signet ring carcinoma is considered particularly malignant and can have severe and often fatal consequences, especially in young women.
We believe it is time for gender-specific treatment and therapy for women, not only for stomach cancer but for all malignant diseases.
We therefore encourage you to submit your scientific work on the above-mentioned topic.
Prof. Dr. Claus Schildberg
Prof. Dr. Frank Meyer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gastric cancer
- other cancers
- other treatment
- gender differences
- diversity
- new challances
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