The Lancet Oncology
Last updated ISSN 1470-2045
The Lancet Oncology is published by Elsevier BV in medicine. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $7,280.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Lancet Oncology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
- Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy
- Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
- Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1470-2045, 1474-5488 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $7,280 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 12,117 |
| Publishing since | 1906 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/the-lancet-oncology |
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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