Gastrointestinal Diseases: Clinical Challenges and Management

Dear Colleagues,

The goal of this Special Issue, “Gastrointestinal Diseases: Clinical Challenges and Management”, is to provide a comprehensive overview of frequently encountered gastrointestinal (GI) disorders in clinical practice at a cancer center. This encompasses a breadth of disorders and conditions that providers should be proficient in while caring for these patients, namely (a) GI bleeding in patients with cancer, (b) GI motility disorders in patients with malignancy, (c) nutrition in malignancy, (d) functional bowel disorders in patients with cancer, (e) drug-induced luminal GI toxicity, (f) drug-induced liver injury, (g) prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of clostridium difficile infection in patients with cancer, (h) large bowel obstruction in patients with colonic malignancies, (i) obstructive jaundice, and (j) colon cancer prevention and surveillance.

There have been significant advances in understanding the etiopathogenesis of these disorders to guide therapeutics, which are often tailored to care for this unique patient population. What used to be considered the standard of care 10 years ago has evolved. While covering all topics in this regard would be beyond the scope of this Special Issue, we hope to improve clinical outcomes and add to the knowledge of providers in the clinical practice of gastrointestinal medicine in this vulnerable, immunocompromised patient population.

Dr. Anusha Shirwaikar Thomas
Dr. Yinghong Wang
Guest Editors

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