Liquid Biopsy and Peripheral Immune Status in Cancer Therapy Response
A special issue of Onco (ISSN 2673-7523).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 1
Special Issue Editors
Interests: signal transduction pathways in metastasis; liquid biopsy, detection and characterization of CTCs
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Interests: circulating tumor cells (ctcs); cancer
2. Flow Cytometry Unit, Section of Animal and Human Physiology, Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Ilisia, 15784 Athens, Greece
Interests: cancer immunology; cancer immunotherapy; biomarkers; precision oncology; immune resistance; cancer vaccines; immune escape; immune checkpoint inhibitors
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The shift to personalized oncology has already enabled longer remission and overall survival periods for many cancer patients. The primary tumor is not always accessible or adequate for performing all available biomarker analyses for patient sub-classification. Moreover, due to the rapid development of novel therapeutic interventions, the need for accurate biomarkers should be prioritized. Additionally, cancer development and therapeutic response are complex, multifunctional processes. Therefore, it is starting to become clear that combinatorial biomarkers may offer more accurate diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive results.
This Special Issue on Liquid Biopsy and Peripheral Immune Status in Cancer Therapy Response will focus on the value of novel, easily accessible biomarkers in the response to all types of tumor therapy. We welcome submissions exploring the value of liquid biomarkers such as CTCs, exosomes, ctDNA, and blood immune cell populations.
Dr. Galatea Kallergi
Dr. Anastasia Xagara
Dr. Constantin N. Baxevanis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- liquid biopsy
- CTCs
- exosomes
- ctDNA
- immune biomarkers
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