Lung Cancer is the official peer-reviewed medical journal

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 published by Elsevier

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 on behalf of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. It includes original research and review articles of relevance to lung cancer

Lung cancer

Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents

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/Clinical Medicine, EMBASE

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, BIOBASE

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, MEDLINE

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, Oncology Information Service, SciSearch

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, and Scopus

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. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal's 2009 impact factor

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is 3.140, ranking it 62nd out of 166 journals in the category "Oncology" and 10th out of 43 in the category "Respiratory System".