Gaps in Cancer Cachexia Research
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Survivorship and Quality of Life".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 786
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cancer cachexia; sarcopenia; regulation of body weight and glucose metabolism; skeletal muscle and adipose tissue metabolism
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The effective management of cancer cachexia requires the further characterization of pathogenesis and optimization of outcome assessments in preclinical and clinical models. We aim to publish manuscripts that fill gaps in the knowledge of rodent and human models of cancer cachexia with the ultimate goal of improving our understanding of patient’s functionality and lived experiences, thereby advancing clinical trial design and therapeutic development.
Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Innovative preclinical models and outcomes, including sex and/or age differences;
- Standardization of functional outcomes and/or functional impairment;
- Virtual or digital assessment of outcomes and validation with clinical outcomes;
- Implementation science to bridge the knowledge/communication gap between healthcare providers and patients/caregivers;
- Disparities in mechanisms, phenotype, and/or therapeutic response;
- Innovative technologies to discern severity and/or therapeutic response;
- Novel pre/rehabilitation approaches to improving therapeutic and/or functional outcomes;
- Chronological vs. biological aging due to tumor and/or treatment burden;
- Multi-organ/system approaches to characterizing pathogenesis and progression;
- Improving translation of preclinical to clinical models.
We welcome the submission of original or review articles on these topics, but we will also consider other high-quality cancer cachexia-related submissions.
Dr. Jose M. Garcia
Dr. Lindsey J. Anderson
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- cancer cachexia
- physical function
- innovative models
- rehabilitation
- patient-reported outcomes
- gender
- aging
- skeletal muscle
- brain
- adipose tissue
