Editorial for focused issue “Cancer Health and Medicine: A new era”

Like every decade, this decade brings a new era of hope in treating various diseases including the devastating cancer. Tremendous and overwhelming efforts from around the world have made this outcome possible. Immunotherapy has shown magnificent promise in treating malignant tumors of various anatomic origins. Multiple novel targets have been identified to treat aggressive cancers and new methods including noninvasive liquid biopsy are on the way for the early detection of cancer. Next generation sequencing has revolutionized and opened up new avenues to characterize various cancers and develop rapid personalized treatment strategies. Exciting new role of mitochondria in cancer progression, metabolic reprogramming has been identified, which can be exploited for cancer biomarker development and treatment. Extracellular vesicles are also gaining tremendous attention due to their emerging role in tumorigenesis and potential in cancer therapeutics and biomarker development