# BMJ

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## TL;DR

The BMJ is the British Medical Association's journal. It published Doll and Hill's 1950 smoking and lung cancer study and remains a leading critic of weak cancer-drug evidence and a champion of open data.

## Summary

Weekly general-medicine journal with a long record in cancer epidemiology (Doll and Hill 1950; Doll and Peto's 50-year doctors study 2004) and in screening and health-services research such as HPV self-sampling. Research articles are free to read; the journal requires data-sharing statements and has campaigned for clinical trial transparency (AllTrials) and against surrogate-endpoint-driven approvals. Strong investigations desk covering the pharmaceutical industry and regulators.

## Fields

- Kind: Journal
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: The BMJ; British Medical Journal; Br Med J
- Publisher: BMJ Group
- Scope: general medicine
- Access: hybrid

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_BMJ
- BMJ cancer collection: https://www.bmj.com/specialties/oncology

## Connected records

- collections: [PubMed & Europe PMC](https://onco.cc/collections/pubmed-europepmc/)
- key papers: [Artificial intelligence versus clinicians: systematic review of design, reporting standards, and claims of deep learning studies](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-nagendran-bmj/), [Availability of evidence of benefits on overall survival and quality of life of cancer drugs approved by European Medicines Agency: retrospective cohort study of drug approvals 2009-13](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-davis-bmj/), [Cancer; a biological approach. I. The processes of control](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-burnet-br-med-j/), [Chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer: a meta-analysis using updated data on individual patients from 52 randomised clinical trials](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-nsclc-collaborative-group-chemotherapy-meta-analysis-bmj-1995/), [Coffee consumption and health: umbrella review of meta-analyses of multiple health outcomes](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-poole-bmj/), [Consumption of ultra-processed foods and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-fiolet-bmj/), [Doll and Hill 1950: the case-control study that tied smoking to lung cancer](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-doll-hill-smoking-lung-cancer-bmj-1950/), [Fifty years of the British Doctors Study: smokers lose ten years of life, quitting gives most of it back](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-doll-peto-50-year-doctors-bmj-2004/), [Long term survival and local control outcomes from single dose targeted intraoperative radiotherapy during lumpectomy (TARGIT-IORT) for early breast cancer: TARGIT-A randomised clinical trial](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-vaidya-bmj/), [Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-hanna-bmj/), [Multidisciplinary team working in cancer: what is the evidence?](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-taylor-bmj/), [Publication of NIH funded trials registered in ClinicalTrials.gov: cross sectional analysis](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-ross-bmj/), [Self-collected HPV samples are as accurate as clinician samples and reach women who never attend screening](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-hpv-self-sampling-bmj-2018/), [Smoking, smoking cessation, and lung cancer in the UK since 1950: combination of national statistics with two case-control studies](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-peto-smoking-cessation-lung-cancer-uk-bmj-2000/), [The mortality of doctors in relation to their smoking habits; a preliminary report](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-doll-hill-mortality-of-doctors-smoking-bmj-1954/), [Ultra-processed food exposure and adverse health outcomes: umbrella review of epidemiological meta-analyses](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-lane-bmj/)

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