Non-coding RNA in Gastrointestinal Tumours: New Opportunities for Diagnosis and Treatment
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
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Interests: predictive biomarkers; colorectal cancer; gastrointestinal cancer; new drugs in GI cancer
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Interests: gastric cancer; pancreatic cancer; colorectal cancer; metastatic melanoma
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Dear Colleagues,
Tumours originating along the gastrointestinal tract involve neoplasias from oesophagus to anus. A healthy lifestyle can reduce the risk of suffering from a gastrointestinal tumour. These tumours are common worldwide, and their response to chemotherapy is higher when detected at early stages. Therefore, new biomarkers and screening methods for early detection are needed. Colorectal cancer is the most known, most common and most treatable gastrointestinal tumour. On the other hand, the incidence of pancreatic cancer has increased in developed countries, and it is anticipated to become the second biggest cause of cancer-related deaths by 2030. The difficulty with pancreatic cancer is that is normally asymptomatic, and 80% of cases present metastatic disease at diagnosis. Oesophageal cancer accounts for about 1% of all cancers, and one-third of cases in Asia and South Africa are related to HPV infection. Gastric cancer is the fourth most common tumour and the second cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Liver cancer as primary tumour is one of the fastest-growing cancers; in addition, liver is the organ in which metastatic foci are most commonly found. These tumours have limited treatment, making active research for this purpose of critical importance.
Since non-coding RNA is small enough to travel via bodily fluids without degradation, it presents promising potential as an early diagnostic biomarker, even via liquid biopsy methodologies. Furthermore, non-coding RNA targets several oncogenes, allowing proliferation arrest, dedifferentiation regulation to a stemness phenotype, apoptosis induction, and inhibition of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition to hamper pancreatic cancer cell migration and the invasion of vital organs. In this regard, small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), microRNAs (miRNAs), Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), or long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), among others, could help in the routine clinical management of gastrointestinal cancer patients.
Dr. Jesus Garcia-Foncillas
Dr. Javier Martinez Useros
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gastrointestinal cancer
- gastrointestinal malignancies
- gastrointestinal carcinoid tumour
- oesophageal cancer
- stomach cancer
- pancreatic cancer
- liver cancer
- gallbladder cancer
- gastrointestinal stromal tumours
- cholangiocarcinoma
- colorectal cancer
- anal cancer
- gastrointestinal carcinoid tumour
- microRNA
- lncRNA
- piRNA
- snoRNA
- circRNA
- predictive biomarkers
- novel therapies
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