Oncology in the Nordic Countries: The Role of Acta Oncologica?

Chemotherapy in gastric cancer: a review and updated meta-analysis

“…In the trial, radiation was given with high quality assurance and quality control programmes to the tumour bed, the regional lymph nodes and a margin beyond the resection margins. It is possible that the coverage of all regional lymph nodes is o f importance for the survival benefit seen (37). The correct interpretation of this study is otherwise difficult because of an apparently variable quality of the surgery, although standard o f care has already been changed at sevcral centres (106).…”

Norwegian Oncologists' Expectations of Intensity-modulated Radiotherapy

“…As Norwegian oncologists are specialized in a joint radiation and medical oncology programme, we believe that their opinions on IMRT judged against other novel cancer therapy principles should be particularly reliable. However, a drawback of this joint specialization is that radiation oncology to some oncologists may become less attractive than medical oncology, as has been suggested in a recent Editorial published in this journal (7). Some oncologists were not too well acquainted with IMRT at the time the questionnaire was distributed.…”

Forty-five years in oncology, 25 years with Acta Oncologica

“…In a letter between my predecessors from 1995, they were pleased by the increase in the ISI impact factor (IF) from 0.613 to 1.060 in two years, but otherwise, they were reluctant to use it in any evaluation of quality. Even if the IF can be criticised in the evaluation of quality of articles, scientists and departments, I realised that it would be 'foolish of a new editor-in-chief with ambitions for the journal to disregard it' [33]. My ambition then was that it should increase above 3, which also happened a few years ago (Figure 1).…”