''Cancer Cytopathology'' is a monthly

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which covers practice of

cytopathology Cytopathology (from Greek , ''kytos'', "a hollow"; , ''pathos'', "fate, harm"; and , '' -logia'') is a branch of pathology that studies and diagnoses diseases on the cellular level. The discipline was founded by George Nicolas Papanicolaou in 1 ...

and its related

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-based disciplines. It is one of three official journals of the

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and is published by

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on behalf of the society. The current

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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: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 5.284, ranking it 16th out of 77 journals in the category "Pathology" and 83rd out of 242 journals in "Oncology".

References

Oncology journals Publications established in 1948 Bimonthly journals English-language journals Wiley-Blackwell academic journals Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies American Cancer Society {{oncology-journal-stub