Cancer Discovery
Last updated ISSN 2159-8274
Cancer Discovery is published by American Association for Cancer Research in medicine. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Cancer Discovery concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
- CAR-T cell therapy research
- Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction
- Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
- Melanoma and MAPK Pathways
- Immune cells in cancer
Key facts
| Publisher | American Association for Cancer Research |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2159-8274, 2159-8290 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 8,063 |
| Publishing since | 1965 |
| Journal website | cancerdiscovery.aacrjournals.org |
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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