Cancer Research is a biweekly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Association for Cancer Research. It covers research on all aspects of cancer and cancer-related biomedical sciences and was established in 1941. The editor-in-chief is Chi Van Dang. The journal was established in 1916 as the Journal of Cancer Research, was renamed American Journal of Cancer in 1931, and obtained its current name in 1941.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Biological Abstracts • BIOSIS Previews • Chemical Abstracts • Current Contents/Life Sciences • Current Contents/Clinical Medicine • Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed • Science Citation Index • Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 12.5.