Special Issue

Topic: Novel Targets for Therapy Resistant Pancreatic Carcinoma

A Special Issue of Cancer Drug Resistance

ISSN 2578-532X (Online)

Submission deadline: 31 Aug 2022

Guest Editors

Dr. Elisa Giovannetti
Lab Medical Oncology, VU University Medical Center, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Cancer Pharmacology Lab, AIRC Start-Up Unit, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Dr. Luca Morelli
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy.

Special Issue Introduction

Pancreatic cancer is a highly lethal disease: almost all patients develop metastases and most current treatments have minimal impact on survival. Therapeutically, this cancer is poorly responsive, largely due to both inherent and acquired drug resistance.

Depending on the stage, a multidisciplinary management approach with surgery and (neo)adjuvant therapies as well as multiagent chemotherapy regimens are recommended. In addition, pancreatic cancer patients should be offered comprehensive germline testing and integrated supportive care.

Accumulating evidence suggests that pancreatic cancer chemoresistance is multifactorial, with an interplay between tumor cells and different components within the tumor microenvironment, while extracellular vesicles are recently emerging for their potential role in transferring aggressive phenotype features. Altered metabolism also contributes to modulation of neo-angiogenesis, apoptosis and drug targets, conferring a resistant phenotype.

As a modality to overcome chemoresistance, a variety of experimental compounds inhibiting key oncogenic and metabolic pathways emerged as a promising approach to potentiate the standard treatments for pancreatic cancer in preclinical studies, but these results have still to be confirmed in clinical trials.

Thus, this Special Issue will cover the most recent research and progress in our understanding of the biology of PDAC chemo/radio-resistance. In addition, we will discuss innovative surgical and pharmacological strategies in the pre-/clinical setting to overcome PDAC resistance, either through developing novel treatments and combinations or by precision/personalized medicine approaches. Both original and review papers are welcome.

Submission Deadline

31 Aug 2022

Submission Information

For Author Instructions, please refer to https://www.oaepublish.com/cdr/author_instructions
For Online Submission, please login at https://www.oaecenter.com/login?JournalId=cdr&IssueId=cdr220831947
Submission Deadline: 31 Aug 2022
Contacts: Bella Zhao, Assistant Editor, bella@cdrjournal.com

Published Articles

Glycogen synthase kinase 3β: the nexus of chemoresistance, invasive capacity, and cancer stemness in pancreatic cancer
Open Access Review 30 Jan 2024
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Discovery of the inhibitor of DNA binding 1 as a novel marker for radioresistance in pancreatic cancer using genome-wide RNA-seq
Open Access Original Article 17 Oct 2022
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AdipoRon and Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: a future perspective in overcoming chemotherapy-induced resistance?
Open Access Perspective 20 Jun 2022
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SF3B1 modulators affect key genes in metastasis and drug influx: a new approach to fight pancreatic cancer chemoresistance
Open Access Original Article 7 Oct 2021
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Cancer Drug Resistance
ISSN 2578-532X (Online)

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