Third CMAS (CytoJournal Monograph/Atlas Series) titled “Uterine Cervix Cancer and The Bethesda System”

After a recent publication of all the articles related to various chapters in CytoJournal Monograph and Atlas Series (CMAS) #2 titled as “Cytopathologic Diagnosis of Serous Fluids (second edition),”^[1] the process of reformatting them into final book is under completion. The book will be released soon.

By this editorial, we share with readers the publication of all articles related to the chapters in CMAS #3 in CytoJournal.^[2] All these articles^[3,4] will be formatted soon as chapters into final CMAS #3 book titled “Uterine Cervix Cancer and The Bethesda System.”

It is important to reemphasize the benefits of the open access charter, including the availability of review articles on the topic around the globe. In addition, all these articles as scientific cytopathology literature are searchable in PubMed database and available with free access. Individual review articles on all CMAS 3 chapters are available under “CytoJournal Monograph Related Review Series” under “Browse Articles” on CytoJournal website.^[5]

All the articles will be reformatted and slightly modified in to individual chapters in CMAS #3 book titled “Uterine Cervix Cancer and The Bethesda System” as multi-author book [Figure 1 and Table 1]. Similar to other CMAS books, this book will also be available as print^[6] and e-version (eCytoJournal)^[7] in various formats after its completion soon similar to other CMAS books.

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Figure 1:

Cover page of CMAS #3 (CytoJournal Monograph and Atlas Series) titled “Uterine Cervix Cancer and The Bethesda System.”

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As a part of open-access charter of Cytopathology Foundation^[5] and CytoJournal,^[8] the copyright will be shared in the public domain^[9] under Creative Commons license.^[10] This has multiple academic advantages, including easy utilization of published material such as figures and other contents for educational purposes after appropriate citation of the original source. This is facilitated further with “Export to PowerPoint presentation (PPT)” function in HTML version in CytoJournal. This feature makes the addition of any image from CytoJournal articles easily with a single click into PPT.^[11]

This multi-author CMAS #3 book with 18 chapters is edited by Meherbano Mustafa Kamal, MD, PhD, MIAC and Jasvinder Kaur Bhatia, MD, FICP, PDCR, PGDHHM [Figure 1].

The hard copies (including Kindle version) of the CMAS #3 book (Hardcover: 978-1-955571-04-3; Paperback: 978-1-955571-07-4; e-Book: 978-1-955571-05-0; Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2021949577) will be available to be purchased online from Amazon Books^[6] similar to other CMAS books including CMAS #1 (CellBlockistry 101) and CMAS #2 Cytopathologic Diagnosis of Serous Fluids (second edition).^[10] The electronic version will also be available under eCytoJournal: Site for reading CytoJournal articles and CMAS in book-like format with flipping pages https://cytojournal.com/eissues/,^[6] which is free for Cytopathology Foundation members https://cytojournal.com/cf-member/^[11] and at nominal cost for non-members. The chapter details are shown in [Table 1].

Additional CMAS books on different topics will continue to be published as ongoing process.^[12]