Oncology Open Access Research

Welcome to our Oncology page where we showcase journal news, collections, highlights and recent campaigns from our open access journals, as selected by our editors.
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World Cancer Day - #IAmAndIWill

BMC is proud to be supporting World Cancer Day 2019. On this page we present a collection of highly influential research content, articles and blogs, carefully curated by our Editors; and a poetry competition with prizes to be won too!

Do your part to support the global campaign by continuing the amazing research. Submit your manuscript to us and publish open access.

Editor's Pick for World Cancer Day

*Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer*	Managing toxicities associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: consensus recommendations from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Toxicity Management Working Group
*Blood Cancer Journal*	Interpreting clinical trial data in multiple myeloma: translating findings to the real-world setting
*Cancer Nanotechnology*	Gold nanoparticles for cancer radiotherapy: a review
*Population Health Metrics*	The present and future burden of previously treated advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) by histology and line of therapy in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain: model-based predictions

*Public Health Reviews*	Participation in lung cancer screening programs: are there gender and social differences? A systematic review
*International Journal for Equity in Health*	Effect of an organised screening program on socioeconomic inequalities in mammography practice, knowledge and attitudes
*Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation*	Cost-effective interventions for breast cancer, cervical cancer, and colorectal cancer: new results from WHO-CHOICE
*Globalization and Health*	Improving early detection of breast cancer in sub-Saharan Africa: why mammography may not be the way forward
*Implementation Science*	Implementation strategies to improve cervical cancer prevention in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

*Infectious Agents & Cancer*	The role of bacteria in cancer therapy – enemies in the past, but allies at present
*Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer*	Cytokine release syndrome
*Cancers of the Head & Neck*	Targeting phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)

*Cancer Communications*	Boron delivery agents for neutron capture therapy of cancer
*Cancer Imaging*	CT texture analysis of lung adenocarcinoma: can Radiomic features be surrogate biomarkers for EGFR mutation statuses
Applied Cancer Research	Liquid biopsy - emergence of a new era in personalized cancer care

*Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research*	The perfect personalized cancer therapy: cancer vaccines against neoantigens
*Archives of Public Health*	Roadbook for the implementation of next-generation sequencing in clinical practice in oncology and hemato-oncology in Belgium
*Radiation Oncology*	Linac-based VMAT radiosurgery for multiple brain lesions: comparison between a conventional multi-isocenter approach and a new dedicated mono-isocenter technique
*Applied Cancer Research*	Splicing isoform-specific functional genomic in cancer cells

Special Collection: Highly Influential Research in 2018

New Content Item Presenting you the Top Altmetric-scoring 2018 articles across our open access oncology-related journals, including BMC, SpringerOpen and Nature.

Read the full collection here.

Poetry Competition

We are using poetry to diversify the conversation about cancer. How has cancer affected you? We invite all poets, first-time or published, to submit. Prizes to be won and poems will be widely promoted. Find out more.

Editors' Special Blog

Read our special blog on how BMC Editors are committed to unite with authors, editors, researchers, and readers around the world to make cancer a global health priority.

Unlock Your Oncology Research

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All articles are free to read, copy, distribute, and use (with attribution)
Author retains copyright - not the publisher
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