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.

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 • Tropical Diseases Bulletin 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".