''CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians'' is a bimonthly

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published for the

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. The journal covers aspects of

cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal b ...

research on

diagnosis Diagnosis is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon. Diagnosis is used in many different disciplines, with variations in the use of logic, analytics, and experience, to determine " cause and effect". In systems engin ...

therapy A therapy or medical treatment (often abbreviated tx, Tx, or Tx) is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a medical diagnosis. As a rule, each therapy has indications and contraindications. There are many different ...

, and

prevention Prevention may refer to: Health and medicine * Preventive healthcare, measures to prevent diseases or injuries rather than curing them or treating their symptoms General safety * Crime prevention, the attempt to reduce deter crime and crimi ...

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the 2020 ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as i ...

of 508.7, ranking it first among all journals in the database.

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* Oncology journals Bimonthly journals English-language journals Publications established in 1950 Wiley-Blackwell academic journals 1950 establishments in the United States Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies of the United States American Cancer Society {{oncology-journal-stub