Targeting Thyroid Cancer: From Biology to Therapeutic Strategies
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmacology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2024) | Viewed by 3645
Special Issue Editors
2. i3S—Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Cancer Signaling and Metabolism Group, Porto, Portugal
3. IPATIMUP—Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Interests: thyroid cancer; neuroendocrine tumors; oncobiology
2. IPATIMUP – Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
3. Department of Pathology – Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Interests: oncobiology; cancer biomarkers; drug resistance; anticancer therapeutic strategies
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2. IPATIMUP – Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Interests: metabolism; reactive oxygen species; apoptosis; oncobiology; mitochondrial biology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Thyroid cancer-TC represents the most common endocrine malignancy (being the fifth cause of cancer in women), with its incidence rapidly increasing globally. Mostly, thyroid cancer patients are cured with surgery followed by radioactive iodine (RAI). Still, in 10-15% of the patients’ disease persists or recurs. Of these, 60% do not respond to treatment with RAI. Following RAI-refractory (RAI-R) disease, the outcome of those patients drops significantly, with 10-year survival rate of less than 10% and the mean life expectancy of 3–5 years.
The advances in targeted therapies, in particular tyrosine kinase inhibitors-TKI (targeting molecules/signaling pathways involved in TC pathogenesis) brought hope to RAI-R patients, for whom no therapies were available. This is particularly true for undifferentiated thyroid cancer where new genetic targets (as ALK or TRK) have demonstrated excellent responses, but it is also true in advanced follicular cell cancer and in medullary thyroid cancer.
However, and despite initial response, resistance can develop, with disease progression and patient death. TC complex heterogeneity is a major hurdle, going much beyond the simple action of known oncogenes and/or tumor suppressor genes. Indeed, it is becoming increasingly evident that genetic and epigenetic alterations occur during progression/metastasis (some of which driven by treatment selective pressure). Moreover, changes in tumor interactions with its microenvironment/immune cells further contribute to TC progression, aggressiveness and/or response to therapy.
This special issue will focus on the recent findings on TC research field, from its underlying biology to the players/mechanism involved in TC heterogeneity and response to therapy.
Your contributions, either through original research articles or review papers, will be relevant to further evolve in this field.
Prof. Dr. Paula Soares
Dr. Raquel T. Lima
Dr. Marcelo Correia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thyroid cancer
- radio iodine therapy
- therapy resistance
- targeted therapies
- tumor heterogeneity
- signaling pathways
- metastasis
- tyrosine kinase receptors
- Tyrosine Kinase inhibitors (TKI)
- tumor microenvironment
