Special Issue

Topic: Biomarker Discovery and Precision Medicine

A Special Issue of Journal of Cancer Metastasis and Treatment

ISSN 2454-2857 (Online) 2394-4722 (Print)

Submission deadline: 30 Jun 2019

Guest Editor(s)

Prof. Bing-Liang Fang
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Special Issue Introduction

With advances of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics, blooming data have been available for exploring molecular alternations in cancers. Many of these molecular alternations have been investigated as biomarkers for cancer diagnosis, prognosis and precision therapies. Indeed, the success of most targeted anticancer therapies, such as inhibitors for EGFR, ALK, BRAF, and PARP as cancer therapies relies on biomarker-directed precision therapy. This Special Issue contains several articles in the areas of discovery of biomarkers, precision medicine and immune oncology. It is now clear that cancers with the same origins, clinical stages, and histopathologic diagnoses can be highly heterogeneous in responses to targeted therapeutic agents and immune checkpoint therapies. Various clinical trials have been shown that only a subgroup of patients benefit from pathway-targeted therapy and immune checkpoint therapies. The inability to identify patients likely to respond to a treatment is one of the major challenges in the early stages of clinical trials of anticancer agents and in clinical practice with some approved anticancer agents. Thus, identification of biomarkers capable of predicting treatment responses is crucial for targeted therapies and immunotherapies of cancers. The articles in this Special Issues discuss and/or report recent advances in discoveries of biomarkers, precision medicine and immune oncology, including strategies, experimental approaches, technologies, and clinical validations and applications. I hope this issue will provide our readers with helpful information about recent advances and achievements in this evolving field.

Keywords

Target therapies, pathway targeted therapies, small molecular inhibitors, biomarkers, gene mutations, epigenetics, molecular signatures, clinical trials, metastasis, cancer stem cells, combinational therapy, precision therapies

Submission Deadline

30 Jun 2019

Submission Information

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Submission Deadline: 30 Jun 2019
Contacts: Alice Qian, Assistant Editor, editor002@jcmtjournal.com

 

Published Articles

Introduction to this Special Issue: “Biomarker Discovery and Precision Medicine”

Open Access Editorial DOI: 10.20517/2394-4722.2019.42 6 Jan 2020
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The immunological regulation of cancer cachexia and its therapeutic implications

Open Access Review DOI: 10.20517/2394-4722.2019.001 29 Sep 2019
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Membrane lipid binding molecules for the isolation of bona fide extracellular vesicle types and associated biomarkers in liquid biopsy

Open Access Review DOI: 10.20517/2394-4722.2019.011 2 Sep 2019
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Monoclonal antibodies to the exon 18 encoded moiety of NCAM

Open Access Original Article DOI: 10.20517/2394-4722.2019.0010 19 Jul 2019
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Sensitive and specific detection of circulating tumor cells promotes precision medicine for cancer

Open Access Review DOI: 10.20517/2394-4722.2018.94 20 Apr 2019
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Peripheral biomarkers for pediatric brain tumors: current advancements and future challenges

Open Access Review DOI: 10.20517/2394-4722.2018.110 18 Apr 2019
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Window of opportunity trials in head and neck cancer

Open Access Review DOI: 10.20517/2394-4722.2018.100 17 Mar 2019
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A pilot study for distinguishing basal cell carcinoma from normal human skin tissues using visible resonance Raman spectroscopy

Open Access Original Article DOI: 10.20517/2394-4722.2018.55 22 Jan 2019
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Mass spectrometry-based metabolomic profiling of prostate cancer - a pilot study

Open Access Original Article DOI: 10.20517/2394-4722.2018.63 7 Jan 2019
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Levels of chemical element contents in thyroid as potential biomarkers for cancer diagnosis (a preliminary study)

Open Access Original Article DOI: 10.20517/2394-4722.2018.52 27 Dec 2018
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Journal of Cancer Metastasis and Treatment
ISSN 2454-2857 (Online) 2394-4722 (Print)

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