Cancer and Immunomediated Inflammatory Diseases (IMIDs)
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 June 2024 | Viewed by 1171
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Immune-mediated diseases represent a clinically heterogeneous group of disorders, affecting up to 10% of the population worldwide. Several immune-mediated diseases have been associated with an increased risk of cancer in the involved organs, such as inflammatory bowel diseases and colorectal cancer, primary sclerosing cholangitis and hepatobiliary cancer, celiac disease and small intestine cancer. Recently, immune-mediated diseases have been also associated with the risk of cancer in distant organs, both higher risk (e.g., ulcerative colitis and hepatobiliary cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and lymphoma) and lower risk (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis and breast, colorectal and prostate cancer). On the other hand, immune-mediated disorders and carcinogenesis have been demonstrated to share part of their inflammatory and immune-regulatory mechanism, such as inflammation-promoting TH17 dominance, dysfunctional Treg surveillance, inhibition of TH1 immunity, microbiota cross talk between colonized and distant organs.
More studies are needed to investigate the association between immune-mediated diseases with the risk of local and extra-local cancers. Moreover, cancer risk profiles for individual immune-mediated diseases need to be better understood.
In this Special Issue, primary research articles, clinical research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following immune-mediated diseases and related risk of local and distant organ cancer:
- Airways diseases (Asthma, allergic rhinitis, Interstitial pneumonia)
- GI tract diseases (Inflammatory bowel disease, Celiac disease, Autoimmune gastritis, Primary biliary cholangitis, Primary sclerosing cholangitis, Autoimmune hepatitis, Autoimmune pancreatitis)
- Skin diseases (Psoriasis, Vitiligo, Lichen planus, Bullous disorders)
- Nervous system diseases (Multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, Autoimmune neuropathies)
- Endocrine diseases (Graves disease or autoimmune thyroiditis, Diabetes (type 1), Addison’s disease, Polyglandular syndromes)
- Hematologic and cardiovascular system disorders (Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, Vasculopathies, Rheumatic heart disease)
- Musculoskeletal disorders (Ankylosing spondylitis, Rheumatoid arthritis, Psoriatic or enteropathic arthropathies, Polymyalgia rheumatica, Myositis, Myasthenia gravis)
- Systemic immune-mediated diseases (Systemic lupus erythematosus, Systemic sclerosis, Sarcoidosis)
- Autoinflammatory diseases (Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF), Behçet’s disease, Adult onset Still’s disease)
Prof. Dr. Sandro Ardizzone
Guest Editor
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Keywords
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cancer risk
- IMIDs
- autoinflammatory diseases
- autoimmune diseases
- immune-mediated inflammatory diseases
- immune-regulatory mechanism
- carcinogenesis
