| Cancer | |
| Cover: | Cancer journal cover.tif |
| Editor: | Suresh S. Ramalingam |
| Discipline: | Oncology |
| Abbreviation: | Cancer |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Cancer Society |
| Country: | United States |
| Frequency: | Biweekly |
| History: | 1948–present |
| Impact: | 6.072 |
| Impact-Year: | 2016 |
| Website: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-0142 |
| Link1: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-0142/currentissue |
| Link1-Name: | Online access |
| Link2: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-0142/issues |
| Link2-Name: | Online archive |
| Oclc: | 01553275 |
| Lccn: | 50001289 |
| Coden: | CANCAR |
| Issn: | 0008-543X |
| Eissn: | 1097-0142 |
Cancer is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering oncology. The journal was established in 1948. It is an official journal of the American Cancer Society and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the society. The first editor-in-chief was Fred W. Stewart, who held that position until 1961. The current editor-in-chief is Suresh S. Ramalingam, and the previous one was Fadlo R. Khuri. Cancer Cytopathology was published as a section from 1997 until 2008, when it was split into a separate journal.[1]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 5.649, ranking it 26th out of 211 journals in the category "Oncology".[2]