About the Journals

About CLK

Tumor-specific, Peer-reviewed, Targeted Content

1. Clinical Leukemia is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal that publishes original articles describing various aspects of clinical and translational research of leukemia.
2. Clinical Leukemia is devoted to articles on the detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of leukemia. The main emphasis is on recent scientific developments in all areas related to leukemia.
3. Specific areas of interest include clinical research and mechanistic approaches; drug sensitivity and resistance; gene and antisense therapy; pathology, markers, and prognostic indicators; chemoprevention strategies; multimodality therapy; and integration of various approaches.

About the Editor

Jorge E. Cortés
Professor of Medicine
University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Dr Cortés is the Deputy Chair in the Department of Leukemia at The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, Texas. He is also the Chief of the CML Section in the Department of Leukemia. In 1991 he started his hematology-oncology fellowship at M.D Anderson and in 1995 was appointed Head of the Hematology/Oncology Department of the Instituto Nacional de la Nutricion Salvador Zubiran in Mexico City. In 1996 he returned to the Department of Leukemia at M. D. Anderson. He is also program director of the Leukemia Fellowship at MD Anderson and has several other administrative appointments such as Chair of the Intensive Care Unit Committee, Chair of the Transfusion Committee, and Vice Chair of the Institutional Review Board.

Dr Cortés earned his medical degree at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City.