# Cancer letters

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## TL;DR

Cancer Letters is a high-volume Elsevier journal for basic and translational cancer biology, with an emphasis on experimental targeted therapies. Read by laboratory cancer researchers.

## Summary

Cancer Letters is an international journal that considers full-length articles and Mini Reviews in the broad area of basic and translational oncology, with Special Issues on topical areas of cancer research. Areas of interest listed on its aims page include the molecular genetics and cell biology of cancer, radiation biology, molecular pathology, hormones and cancer, viral oncology, metastasis and chemoprevention, with emphasis on experimental therapeutics and targeted therapies for personalised cancer medicine. Published by Elsevier since 1975 (originally Elsevier/North-Holland), it appears twenty-six times a year. The ScienceDirect page states that the journal supports open access, so it runs a hybrid model with subscription content and an open access option. Indexed in MEDLINE.

## Fields

- Kind: Journal
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Also known as: Cancer Lett; Cancer Letters
- Publisher: Elsevier
- Scope: cancer biology
- Access: hybrid

## Sources

- Homepage: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cancer-letters
- NLM Catalog: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/7600053

## Connected records

- collections: [PubMed & Europe PMC](https://onco.cc/collections/pubmed-europepmc/)
- terms: [Metastasis](https://onco.cc/terms/metastasis/), [Targeted therapy](https://onco.cc/terms/targeted-therapy-term/)
- people: [Fan Daiming](https://onco.cc/people/fan-daiming/)
- key papers: [Efficacy and safety of SHR-1701 combined with chemoradiotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-nct05300269-cancer-lett-2026/)

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