The ''Chinese Journal of Cancer'' () is a monthly

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covering

oncology Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the study, treatment, diagnosis, and prevention of cancer. A medical professional who practices oncology is an ''oncologist''. The name's Etymology, etymological origin is the Greek word ὄγ ...

. The

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is Rui-Hua Xu of the

Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University (; SYSU) is a public university in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education, SASTIND, and Guangdong Provincial Government. The university is p ...

Cancer Center. It is published by

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and sponsored by the Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center. The journal was established in 1982.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: *

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According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2017

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of 4.11.

References

External links

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