The expanding role of hormones in cancer

Abstract

In launching a new journal that is endorsed by as austere a group as the Society for Endocrinology, one is tempted at first to cite the opening words of Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities. We live in an age of instantaneous communication and immediate dissemination of information without assurances or safeguards for the veracity of what we learn. This is also a time of technical capabilities, which exceed our capacity to use them fully, in order to analyze biological phenomena and probe the mechanisms of disease. There are many more questions and problems that can be answered in a timely manner, had we only the resources to do so. Nevertheless, discovery is proceeding at an expanding pace, and the need for rapid publication and wide dissemination after thorough and responsible review has never been greater. An open access, online journal serves both readers and investigators in this age of preprint servers, Twitter announcements, email, and blogs.