Editorial Board
82 Editors in 19 Countries/Regions
Executive Chief Editor
Ciro Isidoro 
ciro.isidoro@med.uniupo.it Department of Health Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro", Novara, Italy
Research Interests: lysosomal proteolysis, pathogenesis of diseases, cathepsin D, nanobioimaging, autophagy-lysosomal pathway in cancer and in neurodegeneration
Honorary Editors-in-Chief
Dai-Ming Fan
State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Research Interests: identification and application of gastric cancer associated antigens, multi-drug resistance of gastric cancer, immunogenetics and pathogenesis of gastric cancer
Yan Sun
Academician of Chinese Society of Engineering, Beijing, China
Research Interests: clinical oncology, non-small cell lung cancer, breast cancer, target therapy
Advisory Editors
Alfio Wo Ferlito
Coordinator of the International Head and Neck Scientific Group, Padua, Italy
Research Interests: head and neck surgery, laryngology
William C Cho
Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Research Interests: cancer biomarkers, surface-enhanced laser desorption and ionization(SELDI), microRNA
Yudong Zhang
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Research Interests: deep learning, cancer detection, prognosis, prediction, treatment
Senior Editor
Timothy M. Pawlik
Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University College of Medicine，Columbus, USA
Research Interests: small intestine cancer, liver cancers, pancreatic cancers, gallbladder cancers, gastrointestinal cancers, neuroendocrine tumors
Surgical management of cholangiocarcinoma
Laparoscopic and robotic approaches for treatment of choledochal cysts in adults
Surgical management of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
Role of diagnostic radiology in the management of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
Treatment of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: evidence for the role of percutaneous ablation
Application of artificial intelligence to hepatobiliary cancer clinical outcomes research
Factors associated with prognosis and staging of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
Surgical approach to hepatocellular carcinoma: a review
Minimally invasive surgery approaches in major liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma
Associate Editors
Gopal C. Kundu
KIIT Deemed to be University, Institute of Eminence, Bhubaneswar, India
Research Interests: tumor biology, cancer stem cells, tumor-stroma interaction, angiogenesis, cancer therapeutics biomarker development, nanomedicine
Andrea M. Nicolini
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pisa, Santa Chiara Hospital, Pisa, Italy
Research Interests: breast and gastrointestinal cancer and their metastases, tumour markers, post-operative follow-up, physiopathology, immunology and immunotherapy of cancer, thyroid tumours
Christos Papadimitriou
Oncology Unit, Second Department of Surgery, “Aretaieion” University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Research Interests: bone marrow transplantation, gynecologic cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, GI cancers
Godefridus J. Peters
Laboratory Medical Oncology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Research Interests: pharmacology of anticancer agents, antimetabolites, antifolates, platinum analogs, taxanes, anti-signalling agents, third generation targeted-agents
Gemcitabine followed by radiotherapy in treatment of newly diagnosed high-grade gliomas
John M. Pezzuto
College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Western New England University, Springfield, MA, USA
Research Interests: natural product drugs, drug discovery and characterization, cancer therapy and chemoprevention
Stephen J. Ralph
School of Medical Science, Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland, Australia
Research Interests: melanoma vaccines, metastatic cancers, classification of mitocans, effects of laser irradiation on carcinoma
Domenico Ribatti
Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neurosciences and Sensory Organs, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy
Research Interests: angiogenesis in hematological tumors, angiogenesis in hematological tumors, angiogenesis in bone tumors, role of mast cells in tumor angiogenesis, role of chemokines in angiogenesis, role of GM-CSF in angiogenesis, role of PDGF and sugars in angiogenesis, role of transferrin in angiogenesis
William P. Schiemann
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Research Interests: TGFβ & cell signaling, breast cancer metastasis & recurrence, metastatic dormancy, breast cancer stem cells, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, tumor heterogeneity, noncoding RNAs, epigenome
The lncRNA BORG: a novel inducer of TNBC metastasis, chemoresistance, and disease recurrence
Autophagy in breast cancer metastatic dormancy: tumor suppressing or tumor promoting functions?
Introduction to this special issue “Breast Cancer Metastasis”
Hans-Joachim Schmoll
University Hospital Halle (Saale), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
Research Interests: colorectal cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, genitourinary cancers, germline cancers
Gautam Sethi
Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Research Interests: transcription factors in cancer progression, cell signaling, chemoprevention, pharmaceuticals
Jan Baptist Vermorken
Department of Medical Oncology, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium
Research Interests: gynecologic oncology, head and neck oncology, breast and colon cancer
Advanced Research of Drug Resistance in Head and Neck Cancer
Masayuki Watanabe
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Esophageal Cancer Division, Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Research Interests: esophageal surgery, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, noncurative endoscopic resection, upfront esophagectomy, minimally invasive surgery
Recent updates of therapeutic strategy of esophagogastric junction adenocarcinoma
Introduction to Volume 1 Issue 3 of Journal of Cancer Metastasis and Treatment
Epigenetic changes in gastrointestinal cancers
The clinical significance of circulating tumor cells in gastrointestinal cancer
Chronic inflammation and gastrointestinal cancer
MicroRNAs in gastrointestinal cancer: a novel biomarker and its clinical application
Trends in clinical use of targeted therapy for gastrointestinal cancers
Conversion surgery for stage IV gastric cancer
Treatment strategy for metastatic gastric cancer in Japan
Management of metastatic esophagogastric junction adenocarcinoma
Editorial Board Members
Consuelo Amantini
School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
Research Interests: transient receptor potential receptors, cancer cell line models, cellular pathways, autophagy, anti-cancer drug mechanisms
Zohreh Amoozgar
Department of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, cancer immunotherapy, breast cancer, glioblastoma, metastatic ovarian, cancer liver metastases
Valeria Barresi
Università degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Italy
Research Interests: central nervous system, colorectal cancer, molecular, tumors
Jin-Xin Bei
State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangdong, China
Research Interests: tumor heterogeneity, genetics and genomics, viral infection, tumor microenvironment, therapeutic resistance, precision medicine
Rossana Berardi
Oncology Clinic, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ospedali Riuniti di Ancona, Ancona, Italy
Research Interests: non-small cell lung cancer, breast cancer, innovative drugs (target therapy, immunotherapy)
Electrolyte disorders in cancer patients: a systematic review
Squamous cell carcinoma of the lung: clinical criteria for treatment strategy
Medical therapy for advanced gastro-entero-pancreatic and bronchopulmonary neuroendocrine tumors
Neuroendocrine tumors: a multidisciplinary approach for a complex disease
Immunotherapy in colorectal cancer treatment: actual landscape and future perspectives
William L. Blalock
CNR, Istituto Di Genetica Molecolare "Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza", Bologna, Italy
Research Interests: leukemia, osteosarcoma, RNA editing/metabolism/splicing, inflammation/stress signaling
Dominique A. Bonnet
Haematopoietic Stem Cell Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
Research Interests: haematopoietic stem cells, blood cancer
Stergios Boussios
Department of Medical Oncology, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Gillingham ME7 5NY, UK; School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK; Kent Medway Medical School, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7LX, UK; Faculty of Medicine, Health and Social Care, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury CT2 7PB, UK.
Research Interests: Urological cancers, Gynaecological cancer, Colorectal cancer, Melanoma, Biomarkers, Homologous recombination of DNA, PARP inhibitors
Xiaofang Che
Department of Medical Oncology, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
Research Interests: translational research on precise diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal tumors based on hypoxia and immune microenvironment, anti-tumor peptide development, tumor metastasis and drug resistance mechanism, tumor peptide development, tumor metastasis and drug resistance mechanism research
Jyh-Ping Chen
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Research Interests: biomaterials, drug delivery, tissue engineering, nanomedicine
Wei Chen
Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
Research Interests: nanotechnology, nanomedicine, cancer therapy, diabetes detection and prevention
Sheue-Yann Cheng
Gene Regulation Section, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Research Interests: thyroid hormone action, thyroid hormone receptors in health and disease, molecular genetics of thyroid cancer, mouse models
Chun Hei Antonio Cheung
Director of Office of Overseas Students and Scholars Services &Director of Global Competence Advancement Center, Office of International Affairs (OIA)；National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan
Research Interests: anti-cancer nanodrug development, cancer drug resistance mechanism, cancer cell autophagy
Introduction to this special issue - “Autophagy and Cancer: current biology and drug development”
Fausto Chiesa
Division of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy
Research Interests: surgical oncology, thyroid cancer, oral precancerous lesions, oral cancer, squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck, larynx cancer
Daxiang Cui
School of Sensing Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Research Interests: nano biomedicine and biosensor, cancer prewarning and early theranostics, intelligent detection instrument, molecular imaging and nanoprobes
Giuseppe Curigliano
Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, University of Milano, Milan, Italy
Research Interests: early drug development, solid tumours, breast cancer
Antonio Facciorusso
Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Surgical and Medical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, gastrointestinal endoscopy, endoscopic ultrasound, pancreatic cancer, colorectal cancer
Marco Falasca
Curtin Medical School, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
Research Interests: signalling pathways, intracellular physiological and pathological processes, lysophospholipid lysophosphatidylinositol, phosphoinositide 3-kinase isoforms and phospholipase Cgamma-1, phosphoinositides, ABC transporters, G-protein coupled receptors, cancer progression and cell signalling
Pedro Fonte
Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), Campus de Gambelas, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal.
Research Interests: drug delivery, nanomedicine, oral delivery of therapeutic proteins, wound healing, lyophilization of biopharmaceuticals, cancer treatment
Umberto Galderisi
Department of Molecular Biology, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
Research Interests: basic and applied researches on normal and cancer stem cells, analysis of senescence processes that affect stem cell properties, effect of low dose radiations on the biology of normal and cancer stem cells
Elisa Giovannetti
Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands;
Cancer Pharmacology Lab, Fondazione Pisana per La Scienza, Italy
Research Interests: molecular pharmacology, chemoresistance, targeting metastasis
Lombardi Giuseppe
Department of Medical Oncology, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV-IRCCS, Padova, Italy
Research Interests: brain tumor, glioblastoma
Alessandro Granito
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, cirrhosis, liver diseases
Arjan W. Griffioen
Medical Oncology, Amsterdam UMC, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Research Interests: genetic profiling of tumor endothelium, cancer vaccines, combination therapy, personalized therapy
Gang Guo
Center for Gut Microbiome Research, Med-X Institute Centre, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Research Interests: gut microbe and digestive tract diseases
Elif Hindié
CHU de Bordeaux, Service de Médecine Nucléaire, Bordeaux, France
Research Interests: imaging in endocrinology, TEP imaging in oncology, internal vectored radiation therapy, theranostic applications
Dae Joong Kim
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, VA, USA
Research Interests: cancer biology, tumor angiogenesis, tumor immunology, actin dynamics, vascular biology
Robert Arthur Kratzke
Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Research Interests: translational mesothelioma and lung cancer research
Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara
Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
Research Interests: breast cancer, chemoprevention of neuroblastoma, pancreatic cancer
Thomas Liehr
Jena University Hospital, Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Research Interests: inherited and acquired marker and derivative chromosomes, karyotype evolution, uniparental disomy, interphase architecture, probe set-developments
Brandon Lucke-Wold
Department of Neurosurgery, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, USA
Research Interests: metastasis, subarachnoid hemorrhage, neurosurgery, radiosurgery, meningioma
Dario Marchetti
Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, USA
Research Interests: circulating tumor cells, liquid biopsy, biomarkers, cancer metastasis, transcriptomics
A. C. Matin
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA
Research Interests: microbiology, immunology, therapy of cancer
Silvana Morello
Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, Fisciano, Salerno, Italy
Research Interests: tumor microenvironment, metastatic melanoma, prognostic factor, tumor immunology, mitochondrial metabolism of tumor cells
Palanisamy Nallasamy
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Centre, Omaha, USA
Research Interests: pancreatic cancer, stem cells, tumor microenvironment, small molecule therapeutics, cardiovascular disease, experimental diabetes
Manash K. Paul
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Research Interests: stem cell, organoid, lung cancer, disease modeling, drug discovery, exosome, nanotechnology
Pier Paulo Piccaluga
Biobank of Research, IRCCS Azienda Opedaliera-Universitaria di Bologna; Institute of Hematology and Medical Oncology “L&A Seràgnoli” - Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy
Research Interests: hematology, hematopathology, targeted therapy, molecular diagnostics, leukemia, lymphoma, drug resistance, cancer metabolism, genomics
Marc Poirot
French Institute of Health and Medical Research, Inserm Cancer Research Center of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Research Interests: cholesterol metabolism, breast cancer, oncosterone, dendrogenin, cell differentiation and death, autophagy, drug design, medicinal chemistry, diet
Klaus Pors
Institute of Cancer Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
Research Interests: cytochrome, prostate cancer, drug discovery, target oriented synthesis, medicinal chemistry, diversity-oriented synthesis, small molecules, pharmacoepigenetics, molecular fluorescent probes
Giuliano Ramadori
Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Endocrinology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Research Interests: gene expression, liver cells (hepatocytes, kupffer cells, endothelial cells, stellate cells), pathogenesis, inflammation, cancer development, animal models of liver cancer diagnostic procedures and therapy, COVID-19 diagnostic and treatment, mechanisms of acute-phaseresponse, gastrointestinal cancer diagnostic and endoscopic therapy, systemic cancer therapy, tumor microenviroment analysis, liver diseases diagnostic, therapy, iron metabolism, radiation biology
Boris Reva
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: molecular diagnostics, clinical subtypes and precise medicine of cancer, cancer genomics and immune therapy
Jesús San-Miguel
Clinica Universitaria de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Research Interests: myeloma cell biology, minimal residual disease, proteasome inhibitors, immunomodulatory drugs, histone deacetylases
Lúcio Lara Santos
Department of Surgical Oncology, Portuguese Oncology Institute-Porto (IPO-Porto), Porto, Portugal
Research Interests: surgical oncology and carcinogenesis, experimental pathology and oncology, gastrointestinal, breast cancer, cancers related to infections
Marcus Schmidt
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University Medical Center Mainz, Langenbeckstr, Mainz, Germany
Research Interests: prognostic and predictive factors in breast cancer, immunotherapy in breast cancer, endocrine therapy in breast cancer
Consolato Sergi
Anatomic Pathology Division, Pediatric Pathologist, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Full Professor of Pathology & Pediatrics, University, Canada
Research Interests: pediatric oncology, pediatric developmental pathology
Eric A. Singer
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Research Interests: urologic oncology, kidney cancer, clinical trials, bioethics
Rakesh Srivastava
Louisiana State University Health-New Orleans, School of Medicine, Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Research Interests: cancer biology, cell signal, molecular mechanisms, stem cells, human diseases
Hailin Tang
Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, China
Research Interests: cancer, metastasis, proliferation, non-coding RNA
Giovanna Tosato
Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Research Interests: cancer, endothelial cells, vascular biology, hematopoietic stem cell niches
Giovanni Tuccari
Department of Human Pathology "Gaetano Barresi", University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Research Interests: triple negative breast carcinomas, prognostic markers, HER2 heterogeneity, human pathology
Yogesh Vashist
Department of Surgery, Asklepios Harzklinik Goslar, Goslar, Germany
Research Interests: pancreatic cancer, microRNAs, long noncoding RNA
Paula Videira
Departamento Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
Research Interests: cancer-associated glycans, dendritic cell-based vaccines, novel biomarkers in cancer
Valeria Visconte
Department of Translational Hematology and Oncology Research, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Research Interests: myeloid malignancies, myelodysplastic syndromes, myeloid malignancies, acute myeloid leukemia (AML), paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
Israel Vlodavsky
Technion Integrated Cancer Center (TICC), Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Research Interests: cancer metastasis, heparanase, extracellular matrix, tumor microenvironment in cancer progression
Xianwen Wang
School of Biomedical Engineering, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
Research Interests: cancer therapy, nanomedicine, biomaterials, drug delivery, nanotechnology
Yaoqi Alan Wang
Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Research Interests: cancer biology, glioblastoma, neoplasms, tumors, chemical compounds, glioma, stem cells, pancreatic neoplasms, prostatic neoplasms, adenocarcinoma
Murali Yallapu
Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, School of Medicine, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, McAllen, TX, USA
Research Interests: nanotechnology, drug delivery, cancer, biomaterials, miRNA
Qifeng Yang
Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
Research Interests: breast cancer, chemoresistance, metastasis, biomarker
Shun-Fa Yang
Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
Research Interests: pharmacology, oral cancer metastasis, cancer biology, genetic polymorphism and environment risk factors in oral cancer
Haijun Yu
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Research Interests: targeted drug delivery system, immune regulation and vaccines
Vladimir Zaichick
Medical Radiological Research Center, Obninsk, Russia
Research Interests: in vivo and in vitro nuclear analytical methods of chemical element contents measurement in tissues and fluids of human body, age- and gender-dependence of chemical element contents in tissues and fluids, levels of chemical element contents in tissues and fluids as tumour’s markers
Hongyun Zhao
Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat- Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Research Interests: lung cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, clinical trials of anti-tumor new drugs
Founder and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Lucio Miele
Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
Research Interests: cancer stem cell-regulatory genes, GWAS, transcriptome, cancer-associated genes, genomic biomarkers, cancer health disparities
Introduction to Volume 1 Issue 2 of Journal of Cancer Metastasis and Treatment
Neuroendocrine tumors: current therapies, notch signaling, and cancer stem cells
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