Clinical Lung Cancer

*Clinical Lung Cancer*
Discipline	Oncology
Language	English
Edited by	David R. Gandara
Publication details
History	1999-present
Publisher	CIG Media Group (USA)
Impact factor	2.393 (2008)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Clin Lung Cancer
Indexing;
ISSN	1525-7304;
Links
	Journal homepage;

Clinical Lung Cancer is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the CIG Media Group.

History

Clinical Lung Cancer was established in 1999 and is indexed in Index Medicus/Pubmed, EMBASE (Excerpta Medica), Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Science Citation Index Expanded, CINAHL, and Chemical Abstracts. It is published six times annually.

Scope

Clinical Lung Cancer publishes articles on detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of lung cancer. The emphasis is on recent scientific developments in all areas related to lung cancer.

Areas of interest include clinical research and mechanistic approaches; drug sensitivity and resistance; gene and antisense therapy; pathology, markers, and prognostic indicators; chemoprevention strategies; multimodality therapy; and integration of various approaches.

The journal publishes editorials, original research papers, comprehensive reviews, current treatment reports, case reports, brief communications, current trials, translational medicine pieces, and a "Meeting Highlights" section.

Editor-in-Chief

The editor-in-chief is David R. Gandara. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer and the Addario Foundation. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and as secretary-treasurer. Gandara is a member of professional committees, including the NCI Investigational Drug Steering Committee and the NCI Science Correlates Committee.

He is the Chair of the Southwest Oncology Group’s Lung Committee (SWOG). Gandara has published more than 225 articles and 10 book chapters. Gandara holds a B.A. from the University of Texas and an M.D. with honors from the University of Texas Medical Branch.

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