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Annals of Oncology

peer-reviewed scientific journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ326122 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Annals of Oncology is a peer-reviewed medical journal of oncology. It was launched in 1990 with Kluwer Academic Publishers and is currently published by Elsevier. It is the official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology. The editor-in-chief is Fabrice André (Villejuif, France). Previous editors were Jean-Charles Soria, Jan Vermorken, David J. Kerr and Franco Cavalli.

Some articles are available for free public access.

Before coming to Elsevier the journal was published by Oxford University Press, and Springer.

Editorial summary

“Annals of Oncology” enters the record as peer-reviewed scientific journal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Annals, Oncology and peer-reviewed can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Annals, Oncology and peer-reviewed.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Annals of Oncology” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Annals, Oncology and peer-reviewed provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q326122. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990.

Critical limits

Current terminology should not be projected backward without checking the classification used when the underlying evidence was created. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Check terminology, classification and the date of the cited evidence. Scientific names and technical consensus can change while older records retain historical value.

Best used for
  • Current terminology
  • Classification context
  • Finding cited technical literature
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Primary datasets, specimen catalogues, standards bodies and the most recent peer-reviewed literature.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Annals of Oncology”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Annals of Oncology primary sources, Annals of Oncology archive and Annals research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Annals of Oncology”?
  2. Is the terminology current, historical or disputed?
  3. Has classification or technical consensus changed since the cited source?
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This entry incorporates text from “Annals of Oncology” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.