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NEW: Cancer therapy: KRAS targeted therapies

Guest Edited by Biswarup Saha and Hitendra Singh Solanki

NEW: Hyperthermia therapy for cancer

Guest Edited by Arlene Oei and Grace Tan

NEW: Rare cancers

Guest Edited by Atif A. Ahmed and Bruna Samia Dalmasso 

NEW: Viral carcinogenesis

Guest Edited by Julian Naipauer

Editors' Picks

New Content ItemMagnetic resonance imaging-guided intracranial resection of glioblastoma tumors in patient-derived orthotopic xenografts leads to clinically relevant tumor recurrence

New Content Item“Queer people are excellent caregivers, but we’re stretched so very thin”: Psychosocial wellbeing and impacts of caregiving among LGBTQI cancer carers

New Content ItemRGD-p21Ras-scFv expressed prokaryotically on a pilot scale inhibits ras-driven colorectal cancer growth by blocking p21Ras-GTP

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Targeted Therapies for Cancer
Guest edited by Prof. Min Li and Dr. Yanis Boumber
Open for submissions

Microbiome and Cancer
Guest edited by Christopher Staley, Jacques Ravel, Sean Devlin
Open for submissions

Cross journal collection: Advances in CAR-T immunotherapy
Guest edited by Profs Marko Radic, Djordje Atanackovic and Tim Luetkens
Collection published: 30 June 2020

Cross journal collection: Precision Oncology
Collection published: 28 August 2019

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Aims and Scope


BMC Cancer is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of cancer research, including the pathophysiology, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancers. The journal welcomes submissions in broad areas of cancer research including molecular and cellular biology, genetics, epidemiology, and clinical trials. Learn more about our scope here

Esophageal Cancer Awareness Month

July - Sarcoma Awareness Month

Esophageal Cancer Awareness Month runs for the whole of February. We hope you will enjoy reading the following study protocol recently published in BMC Cancer, aiming to investigate active surveillance after Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy as a potential alternative to standard surgery in patients with esophageal cancer.

New Content ItemA prospective cohort study on active surveillance after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for esophageal cancer: protocol of Surgery As Needed for Oesophageal cancer-2

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BMC Cancer is celebrating its 20th anniversary! 

Since launching in 2001, we've become established as the largest open access oncology journal in our field. We're proud of our history of making cancer research and methods available to all. We have been looking back at our achievements and highlighted some of the most influential research published in the journal over the past two decades. 

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Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    3.8 - 2-year Impact Factor
    4.3 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.166 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    1.137 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    30 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    150 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    7,974,312 downloads
    3,975 Altmetric mentions 

Peer-review Terminology

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    Identity transparency: Single anonymized

    Reviewer interacts with: Editor

    Review information published: Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication

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