''Current Cancer Drug Targets'' is a

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published by

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. The

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is Ruiwen Zhang ( UH Drug Discovery Institute). The journal covers research on contemporary molecular drug targets involved in

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 bl ...

, including

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pharmacology Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous (from within the body) molecule which exerts a biochemi ...

molecular biology Molecular biology is the branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions. The study of chemical and phys ...

genomics Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes as well as its hierarchical, three-dim ...

, and

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. ''Current Cancer Drug Targets'' publishes original research reports, review papers, and rapid communications ("letters").

Abstracting and indexing

''Current Cancer Drug Targets'' is abstracted and indexed in: * Chemical Abstracts Service/CASSI * EMBASE *

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According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2019

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of 2.912.

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://benthamscience.com/journals/current-cancer-drug-targets/ Oncology journals Bentham Science Publishers academic journals Publications established in 2001 English-language journals 11 times per year journals