BMC Cancer
Last updated ISSN 1471-2407
BMC Cancer is published by BioMed Central in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,390.
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What it publishes
Recent work in BMC Cancer concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis
- Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Cancer Cells and Metastasis
- Head and Neck Cancer Studies
- Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
- Inflammatory Biomarkers in Disease Prognosis
Key facts
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1471-2407 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,390 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 21,067 |
| Publishing since | 1838 |
| Journal website | www.biomedcentral.com/bmccancer |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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