Health Services Research in Cancer Care

Dear Colleagues,

Research on health services in cancer care provides valuable information to decision makers to ensure that all people are offered the best and most appropriate care to improve their health.

This Special Issue attempts to highlight this relevant endpoint with the aim of increasing the knowledge on the use, costs, accessibility, quality, organization, financing, and outcomes of health services in cancer care. Researchers and research groups engaged in healthcare or health services in the field of oncology and the cancer care sphere are encouraged to contribute.

The range of topics covered in this Special Issue reflects the multidimensional nature of cancer care and the diverse challenges faced by patients, caregivers, healthcare providers, and policymakers.

They include the following:

(1) The effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of cancer care interventions; (2) health technology assessments with a focus on cancer; (3) research on cancer care outcomes; (4) the use of cancer care services; (5) quality of cancer care; (6) access to cancer care; (7) cancer care costs; and (8) patients and caregivers.

The articles included in this Special Issue will contribute to identifying both best practices as well as areas needing improvement within cancer healthcare. By addressing gaps and challenges, these contributions will support the goal of ensuring that all individuals receive optimal and suitable cancer care to enhance their health outcomes.

Dr. Francesco Giusti
Dr. Carmen Martos
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Cancers is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Publisher’s Notice

The Special Issue, together with its publications, has been shifted from Section Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention to Section Cancer Survivorship and Quality of Life on 10 December 2025. The publications remain available in the regular issues in which they were originally published. The Editorial Office confirms that these articles adhered to MDPI's standard editorial process (https://www.mdpi.com/editorial_process).