Palliative radiotherapy, bone metastases, and global assessments in palliative care

With a focused issue on healing and spirituality in July 2017 (1), and another focused issue on palliative care for advanced dementia planned for October 2017 (2), Annals of Palliative Medicine re-mains committed to rapid author decision times following manuscript submissions and expedited publi-cation times following manuscript acceptances to allow timely original research to be dissemination as quickly as possible to our readers.