The Cancer Journal
Last updated ISSN 1528-9117
The Cancer Journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in medicine. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Cancer Journal concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- CAR-T cell therapy research
- Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
- Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
- Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
- Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment
- Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
Key facts
| Publisher | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1528-9117, 1540-336X |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,936 |
| Publishing since | 2002 |
| Journal website | www.journalppo.com |
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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