Why Another Cancer Journal?

Why do we need yet another cancer journal? An excellent question, of course, in light of the profusion of general as well as specialized cancer journals in recent times. An easy answer would simply be to say that this journal will be better than the rest; however a less glib (and probably more accur...

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Main Author: Robert H. Weiss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2009-07-01
Series:Cancers
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/1/1/1/
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description Why do we need yet another cancer journal? An excellent question, of course, in light of the profusion of general as well as specialized cancer journals in recent times. An easy answer would simply be to say that this journal will be better than the rest; however a less glib (and probably more accurate) response is simply that there is currently an explosion of new techniques and approaches in the field of cancer biology, and that the new, and sometimes unusual and unorthodox, data so generated demands an open-access and unrestricted forum for its dissemination. This was the impetus for starting the journal which you are now reading. [...]
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spelling doaj.art-544aeafa4b0d48c6a97761bd16a31c542023-09-02T23:44:50ZengMDPI AGCancers2072-66942009-07-01111210.3390/cancers1010001Why Another Cancer Journal?Robert H. WeissWhy do we need yet another cancer journal? An excellent question, of course, in light of the profusion of general as well as specialized cancer journals in recent times. An easy answer would simply be to say that this journal will be better than the rest; however a less glib (and probably more accurate) response is simply that there is currently an explosion of new techniques and approaches in the field of cancer biology, and that the new, and sometimes unusual and unorthodox, data so generated demands an open-access and unrestricted forum for its dissemination. This was the impetus for starting the journal which you are now reading. [...]http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/1/1/1/n/a
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