Cancer headlines from ecancermedicalscience News

Ecancer, or ecancermedicalscience is an open access cancer journal founded by the European Institute of Oncology in Milan. It was started to provide open access publishing for people working in the field of cancer, to improve communication between researchers, physicians, health professionals, nurses and carers. It is unusual in that it provides a forum in which it is free for professionals to publish their findings, free for people to read and free for people to add their comments.

On its website, ecancermedicalscience describes its aims:

“Thanks to online, multimedia technology and a community poised to podcast and blog - ecancermedicalscience offers a multimedia and multidisciplinary approach to cancer.

European cancer research is of a very high quality but is fragmented, un-coordinated and slow in translating benefits to patients. Cancer care delivery is also excellent in some European countries but by no means all. If state of the art treatment was available to all cancer patients, the World Health Organisation has estimated that over 20,000 lives would be saved annually.  

• ecancermedicalscience aims to improve communications between sub-specialised cancer scientists and clinicians by working interactively and faster - offering authors a rapid peer review process. Submit your paper and you'll hear if it will be published within three weeks.  

• ecancermedicalscience actively encourages the communities of sub-specialised scientists and cancer carers to exchange ideas and research, speeding up the time it takes from discovery, to patient benefit.”