Cancer Cytopathology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal which covers practice of cytopathology and its related oncology-based disciplines. It is one of three official journals of the American Cancer Society and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the society. The current editor-in-chief is William C. Faquin. Cancer Cytopathology was published as a section of Cancer from 1997 until 2008 when it was split into a separate journal.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Academic OneFile • Academic Search • Biological Abstracts • BIOSIS Previews • CAB Abstracts • Chemical Abstracts • CINAHL • Current Contents/Clinical Medicine • Current Contents/Life Sciences • Current Index to Statistics • Elsevier BIOBASE • Embase • Global Health • Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed • International Bibliography of Periodical Literature • PASCAL • PsycINFO • Science Citation Index • Scopus • Sociedad Iberoamericana de Informacion Cientifica (SIIC) databases • Tropical Diseases Bulletin According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 5.284, ranking it 16th out of 77 journals in the category "Pathology" and 83rd out of 242 journals in "Oncology".