Cancers

Cancers is a peer-reviewed, open access journal of oncology published semimonthly online. The North-East German Society for Gynecological Oncology (NOGGO), Irish Association for Cancer Research (IACR), Spanish Association for Cancer Research (ASEICA), Biomedical Research Centre (CIBM), British Neuro-Oncology Society (BNOS) and more are affiliated with Cancers and their members receive a discount on the article processing charges.

• Open Access— free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
• High Visibility: indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), PubMed, PMC, Embase, CAPlus / SciFinder, and other databases.
• Journal Rank: JCR - Q2 (Oncology) / CiteScore - Q1 (Oncology)
• Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 17.5 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 2.7 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2026).
• Recognition of Reviewers: Reviewers whose reports are timely and of high quality receive an APC discount voucher for a future publication in an MDPI journal. Become a reviewer.
• Sections: published in 17 topical sections.
• Companion journals for Cancers include: Cancer Survivorship, BCRC, Radiation and Onco.
• Journal Clusters of Oncology: Cancers, Current Oncology, Onco and Targets.