Editorial

JOURNAL OF BONE ONCOLOGY Aims and Scope The Journal of Bone Oncology is a peer-reviewed international journal aimed at presenting basic, translational and clinical high-quality research related to bone and cancer. As the first journal dedicated to cancer induced bone diseases, the Journal of Bone Oncology welcomes original research articles, review articles, editorials, case reports and opinion pieces. The areas covered by the journal include: • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Bone metastases (pathophysiology, epidemiology, diagnostics, clinical features, prevention, treatment) Preclinical models of metastasis Bone microenvironment in cancer (stem cell, bone cell and cancer interactions) Bone targeted therapy (pharmacology, therapeutic targets, drug development, clinical trials, side-effects, outcome research, health economics) Cancer treatment induced bone loss (epidemiology, pathophysiology, prevention and management) Bone imaging (clinical and animal, skeletal interventional radiology) Bone biomarkers (clinical and translational applications) Radiotherapy and radio-isotopes Skeletal complications Bone pain (mechanisms and management) Orthopaedic cancer surgery Primary bone tumours Clinical guidelines Multidisciplinary care

Editors-in-Chief: Robert Coleman Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield, S10 2SJ, UK, Email: [email protected]

Peyman Hadji Philipps-University of Marburg, Department of Gynecology, Endocrinology and Oncology, Baldingerstrasse, 35033 Marburg, Germany, Email: [email protected]

Editorial Board Richard Bell

Mark Clemons

Ingunn Holen

David Roodman

Australia

Canada

UK

USA

Jean-Jacques Body

Luis Costa

Peter J. Hoskin

Daniele Santini

Belgium

Portugal

UK

Italy

Richard De Boer

Ingo Diel

Norio Kohno

Markus J. Seibel

Australia

Germany

Japan

Australia

Brendan F. Boyce

Michael Gnant

Andreas A. Kurth

Matt Smith

USA

Austria

Germany

USA

Adam Brufsky

Julie Gralow

Allan Lipton

Toshiyuki Yoneda

USA

USA

USA

Japan

Oyvind Bruland

Dominique Heymann

Toshio Matsumoto

Norway

France

Japan

Edward Chow

Lorenz Hofbauer

Gabri van der Pluijm

Canada

Germany

The Netherlands

In affiliation with the German Society for Osteooncology. Cover image by courtesy of Dr. Daniel Hoornenborg et al., Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Covered in the abstract and citation database Scopus®. Full text available on ScienceDirect®.