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.