ecancermedicalscience is pleased to announce that our entire back catalogue of Case Reports has now been included in Cases Database, the freely accessible and continuously updated tool, developed by BioMed Central, which allows clinicians, researchers, teachers and patients to explore thousands of peer-reviewed medical case reports from multiple journal publishers, including BioMed Central, Springer and BMJ Group.

All future ecancer Case Reports will also be included in the database, thus ensuring much wider availability and allowing comparison of similar cases which will highlight trends and patterns and help researchers to develop hypotheses which can then be tested by systematic research.

Professor Michael Kidd AM, Editor-in-Chief of JMCR has said, “Case reports have the potential to improve our understanding of clinical medicine and expand medical knowledge. By bringing similar case reports together, through the Cases Database, researchers and clinicians can start to look for new knowledge – new associations, new side effects, new thoughts about disease processes, new understandings about the impact of disease on our patients and our communities. This is an exciting development and is critical to the advancement of clinical medicine.”