Cancer (journal)

Academic journal

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| label4 = Edited by | data4 = Fadlo R. Khuri

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Wiley-Blackwell for the American Cancer Society (United States)

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MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus

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1097-0142  (web)

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• Journal homepage
• Online access
• Online archive

}} Cancer is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering oncology. The journal was established in 1948. It is an official journal of the American Cancer Society and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the society. The first editor-in-chief was Fred W. Stewart, who held that position until 1961. The current editor-in-chief is Fadlo R. Khuri. Cancer Cytopathology was published as a section from 1997 until 2008 when it was split into a separate journal.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Academic OneFile
• Academic Search
• Biological Abstracts
• BIOSIS Previews
• CAB Abstracts
• Chemical Abstracts
• CINAHL
• Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
• Current Contents/Life Sciences
• Current Index to Statistics
• Elsevier BIOBASE
• Embase
• Global Health
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed
• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
• PASCAL
• PsychINFO
• Science Citation Index
• Scopus
• Tropical Diseases Bulletin

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 5.649, ranking it 26th out of 211 journals in the category "Oncology".

Further reading

,

 Supplement: 60th Anniversary Edition of Cancer, 
 Cancer, 
  
 Vol. 113(Issue: S7), 
 pp. 1717–993, 
  
  
  
  
 Full text,

Hutter, RVP,

 50 years of Cancer, 
 Cancer, 
  
 Vol. 82(Issue: 1), 
 pp. 1–5, 
 DOI: <1::AID-CNCR1>3.0.CO;2-Y 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980101)82:1<1::AID-CNCR1>3.0.CO;2-Y,

• The Journal, referred to as Cancer Magazine, is included in the listing published here:

Lapointe, Kirk,

 Cancer sites offer vast information—and news Full text, 
 The Gazette, 
  
 13 May 1998, 
 Montreal, Quebec, Canada,

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