REAL Canadian Breast Cancer Alliance Collection

Dear Colleagues,

The Research Excellence, Active Leadership (REAL) Canadian Breast Cancer Alliance is a standing nucleus committee composed of clinical–academic physicians specializing in breast cancer from across Canada and Breast Cancer Canada, a patient organization. The REAL Alliance was formed and launched in December 2023 due to recognition that national collaboration is needed to address an unmet need: evidence-based guidance and recommendations, with timely updates, for use with public and government stakeholders for equitable and timely access to treatment and care for breast cancer patients. This special issue will provide guidance to physicians, other health care professionals, and policy makers for improving outcomes for patients with breast cancer across Canada.

Dr. Katarzyna J. Jerzak
Dr. Nathalie LeVasseur
Dr. Nathaniel Bouganim
Dr. Mita Manna
Guest Editors

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Publisher’s Notice

As stated above, the central purpose of this Special Issue is to present research from the REAL Canadian Breast Cancer Alliance Collection. Given this purpose, the Guest Editors’ contribution to this Special Issue may be greater than typical of standard Special Issues published by MDPI. Further details on MDPI's Special Issue guidelines can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/special_issues_guidelines. The Editorial Office and Editor-in-Chief of Current Oncology has approved this, and MDPI’s standard manuscript editorial processing procedure (https://www.mdpi.com/editorial_process) will be applied to all submissions. As per our standard procedure, Guest Editors are excluded from participating in the editorial process for their submission and/or for submissions from persons with whom a potential conflict of interest may exist. More details on MDPI’s Conflicts of Interest policy for reviewers and editors can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark22.