Acta oncologica

aka Acta Oncologica, Acta Oncol

Acta Oncologica is a Nordic clinical oncology journal, now fully open access, read by medical and radiation oncologists and cancer epidemiologists, especially in Scandinavia.

Acta Oncologica is published in Uppsala, Sweden, by Medical Journals Sweden AB. Its about page describes a broad remit across cancer epidemiology, prevention, translational oncology, cancer immunology, diagnostics, medical oncology, precision medicine, radiotherapy, radiophysics, psychosocial oncology, rehabilitation and palliative care, and lists original articles, review articles, short reports, editorials, letters and commentaries as article types. The journal traces its history to 1963 and has carried the present title since 1987, the start year in the NLM catalogue. Since moving to Medical Journals Sweden in 2024 it has been fully open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence with an article processing charge and anonymous peer review, and it is listed in DOAJ. Indexed in MEDLINE.

Publisher

Medical Journals Sweden AB (MJS Publishing)

Scope

clinical oncology

Website

medicaljournalssweden.se/actaoncologica

Access model

open access

Founded

1987

ISSN

0284-186X

People

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Johanna Mattson

Senior Medical Director and Director of Division, HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center

OncologyCancer centre managementRadiotherapy and chemotherapy services

Oncologist who directs the HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center in Helsinki, Finland's largest cancer treatment centre.

Kjetil Taskén

Head of the Institute for Cancer Research

Cancer immunologySignal transductionPrecision oncology

Immunologist and head of the Institute for Cancer Research at Oslo University Hospital's Norwegian Radium Hospital, leading Norway's largest cancer research institute.