Editorial: Reviews in cancer metabolism (original) (raw)

Abstract

The Research Topic Reviews in Cancer Metabolism aimed to compile publications about the current state of the art on tumor cell metabolism, the implications on the aberrant functioning, tumor microenvironment, genomic features, and its impact on developing therapeutic targets. The issue is enriched by seven articles from diverse research groups with remarkable contributions to the metabolism field in cancer, leaving open queries for discussion and future follow-up. The review suggests fresh ideas worth to be taken as cancer treatment targets. According to the World Health Organization (1), cancer is the second leading cause of death from noncommunicable diseases worldwide, accounting for 9.3 million annually (1 https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/topic-details/GHO/ncd-mortality). Regardless of the daily work of the scientific community in tight collaboration with clinicians, deaths have not ceased (2). Understanding its origin, evolution, signaling pathways, and dysregulated metabolism are keys to preventing, controlling, or curing this atypic cell metabolism state, finding new therapeutic targets, and proposing new medications.

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