Trends in Cancer is a new member of the Trends review journals, offering concise and engaging expert commentary articles that address key frontline research topics and cutting-edge advances in the rapidly changing field of cancer discovery and medicine. The journal provides a unique platform for multidisciplinary information, discussion and education that is valuable for scientists, clinicians, and policy makers, as well as patients & advocates. The latest opportunities, challenges and potential impact of basic, translational and clinical findings, industry R&D, technology and innovation, ethics, or cancer policy and funding are equally presented and debated in an authoritative but reader-friendly format.
 
Critical issues to be covered in the journal include: Adult and Pediatric Cancers; Personalized Medicine; Tumor Microenvironment, Resistance and Metastasis; Immunotherapy; Metabolism; Genetics and Epigenetics; Diagnostics, Biomarkers and Treatment; Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention; Cancer related Ethics, Policy and Funding Initiatives.

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Ana Batista
Ana is a graduate from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She completed research for her MSc at UTSW Medical Center and PhD at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and IU Simon Cancer Center, where she studied stromal-tumor crosstalk signaling in pediatric blood cancers. She comes to Trends in Cancer from a post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Rakesh K. Jain at the Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology at MGH-Harvard, where she worked on critical issues in brain cancers, tumor microenvironment and metastasis.