Journal of Thoracic Disease (JTD) has been indexed by SCIE

The Journal of Thoracic Disease (JTD, J Thorac Dis, pISSN: 2072-1439; eISSN: 2077-6624) has been selected for coverage in the Thomson Reuters product: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)^TM, online at the Web of Knowledge^SM, and will be processed for coverage starting with volume 4 [1] 2012. JTD was founded in Dec 2009. It is published quarterly (Dec 2009-Dec 2011) and bimonthly (Jan 2012-), and openly distributed worldwide.

JTD is abstracted and indexed in: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Pubmed Central, Pubmed, SCOPUS, EBSCO, SCIRUS, CINAHL, Index Copernicus, Open J-gate, WorldCat, Google Scholar, Free Medical Journals, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB database, Germany), and German National Library ZDB database.

Upcoming programs for JTD:

JTD will exhibit at the AATS 93rd Annual Meeting in Minneapolis

The AATS 93rd Annual Meeting is to be conducted at the Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA from May 4 through May 8, 2013.

As an international, Open Access, peer-review journal dedicated to thoracic disease, JTD will take this opportunity to exhibit our journal and meet our editorial board members, reviewers, authors and readers. Our booth “AME/PBPC Publishing Company” stands at No. 539 in the exhibition hall (Figure 1).

Figure 1.

The red circle in the AATS floor plan indicates the position of our booth.

JTD will show in ASCO 49th Annual Meeting, Chicago

JTD will exhibit at ASCO 49th Annual Meeting at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, from May 31 to June 4, 2013. JTD will take this opportunity to exhibit our journal and meet our editorial board members, reviewers, authors and readers. Our booth number is 23104, PBPC Publishing Company, in the Publishers Pavilion, Zone B.

Focused issue on video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)

This state-of-the-art issue on the techniques and outcomes of Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) is dedicated to the first world meeting on uniportal VATS in Naples. Our guest editor for this issue is Professor Gaetano Rocco, Director of Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, Chief of Division of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Italy. This special issue, to be published in August 2013 issue of JTD, will serve as a great platform for academic communication between VATS experts worldwide by displaying featured articles contributed by key experts in this field. Please follow up on this special issue to learn the latest update for VATS as a conventional approach and appreciate the current status of uniportal VATS. We believe that this issue which reflects a collaborative effort from multiple international contributors will be illuminative for all experts interested in related field (Table 1).

Table 1. The outline for VATS issue.

Section	Title	Author(s)	Institution
Preface	VATS and Uniportal VATS: a glimpse into the future	Gaetano Rocco	Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, Division of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Italy
VATS - conventional approach	History of VATS lobectomy	William S. Walker	Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, UK
	Techniques of VATS lobectomy	John D. Mitchell	Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA
	Contraindications of VATS lobectomy and determinants of conversion to open	Thomas A. D’Amico	Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
	Current costs of VATS lobectomy	Scott J. Swanson	Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
	Indication for VATS sublobar resections for early stage lung cancer	Antonio E Martin-Ucar	Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom
	Techniques of VATS segmentectomy	Dominique Gossot	Thoracic Department, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France
	Teaching of VATS lobectomy	David R. Jones	Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Uniportal VATS	History and indications of uniportal pulmonary wedge resections	Gaetano Rocco	Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, Division of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Italy
	Geometric advantage of uniportal VATS	Luca Bertolaccini	Thoracic Surgery Unit, S. Croce City Hospital, Cuneo, Italy
	Uniportal VATS for pneumothorax and interstitial lung disease	Alessandro Brunelli	Section Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti Ancona, Italy
	Uniportal VATS in Asia	Calvin SH Ng	Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong
	Uniportal VATS segmentectomy	Diego Gonzalez-Rivas	Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain
	Uniportal VATS lobectomy	Diego Gonzalez-Rivas	Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain
	Uniportal VATS pneumonectomy	Diego Gonzalez-Rivas	Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain

Focused issue on breast cancer in young women

This special issue dedicated to improving management and treatment on breast cancer in young woman will provide up-to-date knowledge on imaging, genetic, surgical aspects of breast cancer in young women and address the challenges in managing breast cancer during pregnancy focusing on key opinions from renowned experts worldwide in related fields. Our guest editors for this special issue (Table 2) are Dr. Hatem A. Azim Jr, from Department of Medicine, Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium and Dr. Fedro A. Peccatori, from Fertility and Procreation in Oncology Unit, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy. This special issue will be brought out in the second quarter of 2013.

Table 2. Outline for the focused issue on breast cancer in young women.

Title	Author(s)	Institution
Epidemiology and prognosis of breast cancer in young women	Nagi El Saghir	American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Breast imaging in the young: the role of MRI in breast cancer screening, diagnosis and follow-up	Dorria Salem	Department of Radiology, Cairo University Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
Breast cancer in the young: the geneticist role!	Jennifer K. Litton	Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas, USA
Surgical controversies and challenges in young breast cancer patients	Oreste Gentilini	Division of Breast Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milano, Italy
Bisphosphonates in the adjuvant treatment of young breast cancer patients: ready for prime time?	Hamdy Azim	Department of Clinical Oncology, Cairo University Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
Hormonal therapies in young breast cancer patients: when, what and for how long?	Olivia Pagani, Alexandre Christinat, Simona Dilascio	Institute of Oncology of Southern Switzerland, Breast Unit of Southern Switzerland, Ospedale san Giovanni, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Treatment of breast cancer in young women: do we need more aggressive therapies?	Giuseppe Cancello	European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
Premature menopause in young breast cancer: effects on quality of life and possible treatment interventions	Ann H. Partridge, Shoshana Rosenberg	Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, MA,USA
Challenges in managing breast cancer during pregnancy	Flora Zagouri	Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Fertility counseling of young breast cancer patients	Lucia Del Mastro, Matteo Lambertini, Alessia Levaggi, Sara Giraudi, Claudia Bighin	SS Sviluppo Terapie Innovative, National Institute for Cancer Research, Genova, Italy

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