Elsevier's New Educational Platform Advances In Gastrointestinal Cancer Helps Physicians Care for Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients

AMSTERDAM, January 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

New Online Resource Centre provides free access to the latest research

A new educational online Resource Centre focused on gastrointestinal cancer gives healthcare professionals free access to the latest peer-reviewed research, cutting-edge data and case studies to help them treat patients more effectively.

Elsevier's Advances in Gastrointestinal Cancer Resource Centre, which is hosted by the European Journal of Cancer and Clinical Colorectal Cancer, acts as an information hub to keep physicians and other healthcare practitioners up-to-date on the latest studies and guidelines.

Gastrointestinal (GI) cancer is the most common form of cancer. It includes the cancers that affect the esophagus, gallbladder, liver, pancreas, stomach, small intestine, bowel and anus. There are various approaches to treating the different cancers, and the new Resource Centre aims to give healthcare professionals the tools they need to care for their patients.

Launched during ECCO/ESMO 2015 conference in Vienna, the Advances in Gastrointestinal Cancer Resource Centre focuses on gastric cancer and will expand its scope over time to include all GI cancers.

"With the new Resource Centre, we aim to provide clinically relevant information to enable healthcare workers to treat and care for their patients," said Professor David Cunningham, Editor-in-Chief of the Advances in Gastrointestinal Cancer Resource Centre from Royal Marsden Hospital in London and Surrey, UK. "This is a fast-moving field so it is vital healthcare professionals keep up-to-date with the latest information."

The platform, which is freely accessible, will offer journal articles, patient case reports, interviews and roundtable discussions with experts. All content is curated by experts: Editor-in-Chief Professor David Cunningham and the Resource Centre's international advisory board.

New content is posted monthly. Visitors can subscribe to the eAlert to stay informed of all new content as it is published.

The Advances in Gastrointestinal Cancer Resource Centre is one of several freely accessible Resource Centres on different topics published by Elsevier (elsevierresource.com).

Each Resource Centre provides clinically relevant content from trusted sources, which is curated, reviewed and commented on by expert editors. Resource Centres aim to increase clinical knowledge of a particular medical specialty by disseminating important new research and clinical developments more broadly.

The Advances in Gastrointestinal Cancer educational resource is sponsored by Lilly Oncology.

About the European Journal of Cancer 

The European Journal of Cancer (EJC) is an international multidisciplinary oncology journal that publishes original research, reviews and editorial comments on basic and preclinical cancer research, translational oncology, clinical oncology and cancer epidemiology and prevention. The EJC is the official journal of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), the European CanCer Organisation (ECCO), the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) and the European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA).

About Clinical Colorectal Cancer 

Clinical Colorectal Cancer is a peer-reviewed, quarterly journal that publishes original articles describing various aspects of clinical and translational research of gastrointestinal cancers. Clinical Colorectal Cancer is devoted to articles on the detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of colorectal, pancreatic, liver, and other gastrointestinal cancers. The main emphasis is on recent scientific developments in all areas related to gastrointestinal cancers.

About Elsevier 

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology professionals, empowering them to make better decisions, deliver better care, and sometimes make groundbreaking discoveries that advance the boundaries of knowledge and human progress. Elsevier provides web-based, digital solutions - among them ScienceDirect, Scopus, Elsevier Research Intelligence and ClinicalKey - and publishes over 2,500 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and more than 33,000 book titles, including a number of iconic reference works. Elsevier is part of RELX Group plc, a world-leading provider of information solutions for professional customers across industries.

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