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The Cancer Journal

peer-reviewed scientific journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ2589130 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Cancer Journal: The Journal of Principles & Practice of Oncology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering oncology. It was established in 1995 as The Cancer Journal from Scientific American by Scientific American, but is now published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins under the new name since 2000. The editors-in-chief are Vincent T. DeVita (Yale Cancer Center), Theodore S. Lawrence (University of Michigan), and Steven Rosenberg (National Cancer Institute). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 2.2, ranking it 199th out of 241 journals in the category "Oncology".

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2000, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cancer, Journal and peer-reviewed.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“The Cancer Journal” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cancer, Journal 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 Nov 24, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2589130. 6 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2000 and 2022.

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
Verify next

Primary datasets, specimen catalogues, standards bodies and the most recent peer-reviewed literature.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Cancer Journal”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Cancer Journal primary sources, The Cancer Journal archive and Cancer 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 “The Cancer Journal”?
  2. Is the terminology current, historical or disputed?
  3. Has classification or technical consensus changed since the cited source?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “The Cancer Journal” 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.