We are pleased to announce that ecancermedicalscience will be publishing a special issue on “Clinical and translational research and drug development in rare cancers”. The collection will be published online in Summer 2013, and the deadline for submitting papers for consideration for this issue is 29th March 2013.  Please submit your article using our online submission system http://ecancer.org/author.  If you have any queries please contact Patricia Pantos at patricia@ecancer.org.