Nature Clinical Practice Oncology
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Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology is a peer-reviewed journal for oncologists. The journal was renamed from Nature Clinical Practice Oncology in April 2009. Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology is one of eight Clinical Review journals published by the Nature Publishing Group. It covers research developments and clinical practice in oncology. The Chief Editor is Dr Lisa Hutchinson who works with an international Advisory Board of clinicians.
Coverage includes:
Coverage includes:
- ChemotherapyChemotherapyChemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with an antineoplastic drug or with a combination of such drugs into a standardized treatment regimen....
- Clinical pharmacology
- Diagnosis
- EpidemiologyEpidemiologyEpidemiology is the study of health-event, health-characteristic, or health-determinant patterns in a population. It is the cornerstone method of public health research, and helps inform policy decisions and evidence-based medicine by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive...
- Experimental therapies
- GeneticsGeneticsGenetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....
- Health services, economics and outcomes research
- Hematology
- Hormonal therapies
- Imaging
- ImmunotherapyImmunotherapyImmunotherapy is a medical term defined as the "treatment of disease by inducing, enhancing, or suppressing an immune response". Immunotherapies designed to elicit or amplify an immune response are classified as activation immunotherapies. While immunotherapies that reduce or suppress are...
- Medical oncology
- Palliative care
- PathologyPathologyPathology is the precise study and diagnosis of disease. The word pathology is from Ancient Greek , pathos, "feeling, suffering"; and , -logia, "the study of". Pathologization, to pathologize, refers to the process of defining a condition or behavior as pathological, e.g. pathological gambling....
- Pediatric oncology
- Prevention
- Radiotherapy
- Screening
- Signal transduction
- Statistics
- Surgical oncology
- Targeted therapies