Nature Milestones in Cancer
Editorial
The Milestones are a series of specially written articles, which highlight the most influential discoveries in the field of cancer over the past century. Milestones in Cancer also comprises a Collection of selected review-type articles and an online-only NPG library of recent research papers and review content organized according to contributing journal.
Milestones timeline
The Milestones are ordered along a chronological timeline — the first one dating from 1889 and the most recent one from 2001 — according to the year in which the oldest original research paper associated with the Milestone was published.
Collection articles
Articles that were selected for the Collection have been previously published by the Nature Publishing Group and comprise review-type articles including a Review and two Perspectives.
NPG library
The online-only library contains recent research and review-type articles on the topic of cancer from the Nature Publishing Group.
Advisors
The papers that were highlighted in the Milestones were chosen with the help of a panel of expert advisors.
Sponsors
Nature Milestones in Cancer was produced with support from Applied Biosystems, AstraZeneca, Genentech, Cancer Research UK and ImClone Systems Incorporated, which enabled free access to this content for the first six months, as well as the distribution of a free Digital Edition of the supplement, available in limited numbers.
