| 2009 |
Inaugural issue was released, initially published as a quarterly journal. |
| 2013 |
Indexed by PubMed (NLM) and Scopus. |
| 2015 |
Changed to publish in article number order instead of in page range order. |
| 2016 |
Changed to a monthly publication schedule. The Travel Awards project was launched to support young researchers in the field. The journal Twitter account was established. |
| 2017 |
Covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). |
| 2018 |
Cancers received a first Impact Factor of 5.326. The journal ranks 44/222 (Q1) in the 'Oncology' category. |
| 2019 |
Cancers received an Impact Factor of 6.162. The journal ranks 31/229 (Q1) in the 'Oncology' category in JCR.
Cancers published more than 2000 papers in the year of 2019. |
