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AI in Oncology

In recent years, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, tools and methodologies has been expanding rapidly in all fields. The medical ones are no exception. In the United States Food and Drug ...

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Brain Metastases from Lung Cancer: Recent Advances and Novel Therapeutic Opportunities

The process of metastatic dissemination begins when malignant cells start to migrate and leave the primary mass. It is now known that neoplastic progression is associated with a combination of genetic and ep...

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Cancer metabolism and metabolites

Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of malignancy. Recent work in cancer metabolism has focused on assessing metabolic phenotypes in native microenvironments in humans and mice. This has produced a greater...

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Cancer Metabolism: A Therapeutic Perspective

Metabolism is referred to as the biochemical processes that occur within living organisms in order to maintain life, which is a key character that distinguishes a living thing from a non-living thing. In com...

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Computational and Analytical Methods for Transcriptome Analysis in Personalized Cancer Treatment

Transcriptome analysis has revolutionized cancer research, enabling comprehensive profiling of gene expression patterns and identification of key genes and pathways involved in cancer initiation, progression...

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Gastrointestinal cancer

Gastrointestinal cancer represents a heterogeneous complex array of disorders and diseases. They may be divided into rare inherited forms and more frequent sporadic forms. There is a critical interplay of ge...

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Inter-organ/cellular Communication and Microenvironment of Digestive Cancer

The fate of tumor cells depend on the outcome of their interaction with peripheral tissues, immune system, microbes and even distant organs. Many signal molecules or particles, including exosomes and cytokin...

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Molecular and therapeutical advances in Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) are highly common and malignant solid cancers that arise from stratified and pseudo-stratified epithelia of skin, oesophagus, head and neck and lung. Although derived from dis...

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Molecular Biology of Urogenital and Genitourinary Tumors

While genitourinary tumors can be triggered by chemicals or anticancer treatments due to pre-existing cancers, some cancers, especially renal carcinomas, have been found to be caused by genetic abnormalities...

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New Insights into Interdisciplinary Technologies on Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment and Mechanism

In recent years, interdisciplinary technologies, especially the combination of in silico approaches and wet-lab assays, have achieved remarkable success in accelerating the development of cancer diagnosis, t...

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New Perspectives within Clinical Cancer Informatics

Several challenges and controversies exist in the domain of clinical cancer treatment. These include therapeutic modalities to achieve better therapeutic effects in tumor treatment; the efficacy of immunothe...

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Survivorship of Childhood or Adolescent Cancer

Worldwide over 400'000 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer each year. Survival in high income countries exceeds over 80%, but is much lower in middle and low income countries. Over two thirds ...

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Th17 and Innate Immunity in the Dysregulation of Cancer

This special issue aims to explore the role of innate immunity and signal transduction regulating innate immune cells and their role in neoplastic dysregulation. A special focus will be devoted to the role o...

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