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Editorial: Advances in the Understanding of Tumor Microenvironment: Molecular and Theranostic Imaging

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  • 05/14/2025
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    Shouju Wang, Nanjing Medical UniversityHui Mao, Emory UniversityZhen Cheng, Stanford UniversityZhaogang Teng, Nanjing UniversityXiaolian Sun, China Pharmaceutical University
Language
  • English
Date
  • 2021-08-05
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  • Frontiers Media
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  • © 2021 Wang, Mao, Cheng, Teng and Sun.
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  • 9
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  • This work received funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos 82022034 and 81871420) and Jiangsu Province Natural Science Foundation of China (No. BK20200032).
Abstract
  • Tumor microenvironment (TME) plays key roles in cancer development, prognosis and responses to treatments. However, given its heterogeneity and complex interactions/interplays with other malignant processes, investigating TME requires systematical and preferably non-disruptive approaches. Molecular imaging enables visualizing, characterizing, and even quantitatively measuring specific biological and molecular processes in vivo to monitor the heterogeneity and evolution of TME. Theranostic imaging, as a rapidly expanding facet of molecular imaging, also creates new possibilities to deploy treatment options targeting TME by delivering therapeutic agents or disruptive photothermal and photodynamic energy. The advanced molecular and theranostic imaging tools and approaches presented in this special issue, including one review article, one mini review article, and two original research articles, offer an overview and a few examples of such applications.
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  • Biology, Molecular
  • Health Sciences, Oncology

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