An American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) journal that only began being published in 2017, JCO Precision Oncology introduced a new article series in 2018 called the JCO Precision Oncology Molecular Tumor Board Case Series. According to the introductory editorial by James M. Ford, MD, this series “aims to provide an important learning platform for the oncology community about how to effectively use genomic information for optimal targeted drugs and clinical trial matches”. Based on the well-written, clearly presented information in the first paper in this series by Rodrigo Dienstmann, it certainly promises to be a very timely and useful addition to the knowledge/evidence base for precision oncology.
JCO Precision Oncology is one of two new ASCO titles that launched in 2017. According to the publisher: “JCO PO is a peer-reviewed, online-only, article-based journal publishing original research, reports, opinions, and reviews that advance the science and practice of precision oncology and define genomics-driven clinical care of patients with cancer. Innovative and timely scientific and educational content provide a deeper understanding of actionable cancer genomics, personalized translational and clinical oncology research, and recent treatment advances based on tumor molecular profiling.” The second new title is JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics: “JCO CCI is an online-only interdisciplinary journal publishing clinically relevant research based on biomedical informatics methods and processes applied to cancer-related data, information, and images.”
Both of these ASCO titles are not yet fully-indexed in MEDLINE or PubMed and so only the publicly available papers deposited in PubMed Central will appear indexed in PubMed. As such, the best way to currently access the content of these journals is by going directly to their respective JCO websites. To view the current NLM Catalog record of each journal that indicates the journal’s Current Indexing Status, click on each of their titles: JCO Precision Oncology and JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics. Please note that as these journals publish more articles over time and establish themselves as reliable, authoritative titles, their indexing status in PubMed/Medline will be re-evaluated by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and will likely change.
These two journal titles have also been added to the collections of the MSK Library – see their respective MSK Library catalog records (that include their Online access link to the full-text) by clicking on their titles: JCO Precision Oncology and JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics. If accessed from off-campus (ie. from a device not on the MSK network), a remote access login may be required. For more information about these journals or other MSK Library resources, feel free to contact us!