Minimal residual disease
- Submission status
- Closed
- Submission deadline
Minimal residual disease, also referred to as measurable residual disease or MRD, is the term used to describe cancerous cells that remain in patients following cancer treatment. MRD cells can be unresponsive or resistant to the therapy and, therefore, monitoring for their presence assists physicians in determining treatment efficacy and predicting the probability of disease relapse. MRD detection is performed by a variety of methods, including flow cytometry, qPCR and next generation sequencing. This Collection welcomes submissions focussing on developments in MRD detection methodology including RNA, DNA and cellular diagnostics; epidemiological studies investigating MRD; and research focussed towards the identification of novel MRD biomarkers.
Editors
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William Cho
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Muhammad J. A. Shiddiky
Rural Health Research Institute, Charles Sturt University, Australia
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Hirofumi Yamamoto
Department of Molecular Pathology, Division of Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan
Submitting a paper for consideration
To submit your manuscript for consideration at Scientific Reports as part of this Collection, please follow the steps detailed on this page. On the first page of our online submission system, under “I’m submitting:” select the option “any other article type”. Once logged in you can submit your manuscript to a Collection by selecting “Guest Edited Collection”, under the “Choose the appropriate manuscript type” message, and clicking “Continue”. Then when filling out the manuscript information, select the "Minimal residual disease" Collection from the alphabetical list on the “Springer Nature Subject Category” tab. Authors should express their interest in the Collection in their cover letter.
Accepted papers are published on a rolling basis as soon as they are ready.
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