Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group is joining forces with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) to publish npj Breast Cancer, an open access research journal which will help understand, prevent, treat and cure the world's second most common cancer.
npj Breast Cancer will publish high quality research that is online-only, and free to access, enabling academics, clinicians and patients to stay up to date with the latest research on the subject. The journal will publish original research articles, reviews, editorials, commentaries, and hypothesis on all areas of breast cancer research.
Dr. Larry Norton, BCRF Scientific Director and Medical Director of the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Dr. Clifford A. Hudis, who is Chairman of the BCRF Scientific Advisory Board and Chief of the Breast Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, will serve as joint editors in chief for the journal. Both Dr. Norton and Dr. Hudis are Past Presidents of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
Topics covered will include imaging, immunotherapy, molecular classification of disease, mechanism-based therapies, carcinogenesis, survivorship issues including long-term toxicities of treatment and secondary neoplasm occurrence, the biophysics of cancer, mechanisms of metastasis and perturbation, and studies of the tumour microenvironment.
The journal is online at http://www.nature.com/npjbcancer/, and is currently open for submissions.
