Bone Marrow Transplantation has published a special issue on myeloma, edited by Ray Powles, Kenneth Anderson, Jean Luc Harrousseau and Bhawna Sirohi, and freely available online. This special issue follows the recent approval of three new targeted therapies for myeloma. It gives guidance on how the sequence of treatments and supportive therapy can be combined to optimize the patient’s treatment pathway, to produce prolonged normal symptom-free survival.

About the journal: Bone Marrow Transplantation publishes high quality, peer reviewed original research that addresses all aspects of basic biology and clinical use of haemopoietic stem cell transplantation. The broad scope of the journal thus encompasses topics such as stem cell biology (for example, kinetics and cytokine control), transplantation immunology (for example, HLA and matching techniques, translational research, and clinical results of specific transplant protocols). Bone Marrow Transplantation publishes 24 issues a year and has an impact factor of 2.621. The guide to authors, including a link to the online submission web page, can be found here. Information for peer-reviewers and about peer-review can be found here.