Cancer (journal)

Cancer

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Discipline	Oncology
Language	English
Edited by	Fadlo R. Khuri
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell for the American Cancer Society (United States)
History	1948–present
Frequency	Biweekly
Open access
License
Impact factor	6.072 (2016)
ISSN	0008-543X

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.<ref name=LC>

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

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".<ref name="WoS">,

 2015 Journal Citation Reports, 
 Science edition, 
 Thomson Reuters, 
 2016, 
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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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