# BMC Cancer

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{{Primary sources|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox journal
| cover =
| discipline = [Oncology](/source/Oncology)
| abbreviation = BMC Cancer
| website = http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmccancer
| publisher = [BioMed Central](/source/BioMed_Central)
| country =
| history = 2001–present
| ISSN = 1471-2407
| impact = 3.4
| impact-year = 2023
| CODEN = BCMACL
| LCCN = 2002243079
| OCLC = 45893944
}}
'''''BMC Cancer''''' is a [peer-reviewed](/source/Peer_review) [open access](/source/Open_access_(publishing)) [medical journal](/source/medical_journal) that publishes original research on [cancer](/source/cancer) and [oncology](/source/oncology).  It was established in 2001 at a time when open access publishing was in its infancy, and is published by [BioMed Central](/source/BioMed_Central). It was one of the first journals to be open access and exclusively published online. <ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Chap |first1=Christna |last2=Patel |first2=Jigisha |date=2011-11-30 |title=A decade of progress in cancer research |journal=BMC Cancer |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=498 |doi=10.1186/1471-2407-11-498 |issn=1471-2407 |pmc=3276491 |pmid=22128753 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

== Abstracting and indexing ==
The journal is abstracted and indexed by [PubMed](/source/PubMed), [MEDLINE](/source/MEDLINE), [CAS](/source/Chemical_Abstracts_Service), [EMBASE](/source/EMBASE), [Scopus](/source/Scopus), [Current Contents](/source/Current_Contents), and [CABI](/source/CAB_International).<ref>{{cite web|title=Aims and scope|publisher=BioMed Central|url=https://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/about|accessdate=16 October 2020}}</ref> According to the ''[Journal Citation Reports](/source/Journal_Citation_Reports)'', its 2-year [impact factor](/source/impact_factor) was 3.4 in 2023.<ref>{{cite web|title=About|publisher=BioMed Central|url=https://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/about|accessdate=2 April 2022}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Media from BMC Cancer}}
* {{Official website|http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmccancer}}

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