Advances in Precision Medicine for Gastrointestinal Cancers
A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Personalized Therapy and Drug Delivery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 May 2026 | Viewed by 5
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Interests: cancer diagnostics; cancer biology; ATP-binding cassette transporters; gastrointestinal oncology; tumor markers; tumor biology; molecular oncology; diagnostic pathology; anticancer drug resistance; progesterone receptors; human erbb2 protein; breast neoplasms; neuroendocrine carcinoma; synaptophysin; chromogranins; pancreaticoduodenectomy; neoadjuvant therapy; mesenteric veins
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that we are launching a Special Issue entitled “Advances in Precision Medicine for Gastrointestinal Cancers”.
Precision medicine aims to provide optimal treatment to each individual patient, taking into account their genetic background, environmental factors, and disease status. For this purpose, new methods for genetic testing, such as liquid biopsy and ctDNA analysis, and new modalities for diagnostic imaging are being developed. The development of new surgical and interventional techniques/devices alongside novel chemotherapeutic drugs is also progressing. Precision medicine for cancer began with breast cancer in the 1990s, but its application has since expanded to other types of cancer as well. Since the 2000s, molecular targeted drugs have shown remarkable progress. The effectiveness of immunotherapy was also recognized, leading to the significant advancement of immune checkpoint inhibitors. Recently, attempts have been made to use artificial intelligence to efficiently analyze enormous data and provide optimal treatment for each individual patient. The prognosis for unresectable gastrointestinal cancers with locally advanced disease or distant metastasis has been poor, but the development of precision medicine is expected to improve their prognosis. In this Special Issue, we call for papers that report researchers’ innovative approaches and the key challenges in this field. They may include advances in diagnostic modalities, treatment and interventional techniques and devices, and new chemotherapeutic reagents. Attempts to use artificial intelligence are also welcome.
Dr. Yasuo Imai
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- gastrointestinal cancer
- precision medicine
- personalized medicine
- diagnostic imaging
- genomic testing
- proteomics
- molecular targeted drug
- immune checkpoint inhibitors
- artificial intelligence
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