Molecular Carcinogenesis publishes articles describing discoveries in basic and clinical science of the mechanisms involved in chemical-, environmental-, physical (e.g., radiation, trauma)-, infection and inflammation-associated cancer development, basic mechanisms of cancer prevention and therapy, the function of oncogenes and tumors suppressors, and the role of biomarkers for cancer risk prediction, molecular diagnosis and prognosis. 

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
Molecular and cellular mechanisms associated with normal homeostasis altered in neoplasia 
Molecular aspects of oncogenes, tumor suppressors, and their gene products in animal models and human cancer 
Epigenetic mechanisms related to cancer initiation, progression and therapy
Microenvironment and systemic regulations in cancer initiation and progression
Mechanisms of chemo- and dietary cancer prevention
Molecular cancer epidemiology
Biomarker discoveries for cancer risks, molecular pathology, prognosis and therapeutic response/resistance 
Mechanisms of developmental and approved cancer therapeutics and clinical trials (targeted-, immuno-, chemo-, radio-therapy) with clear molecular/cellular targets 
Biostatistics, bioinformatics and computational approaches for the aforementioned areas

Areas outside the scope of the journal include:
Studies with no relevance to cancer
Reporting genetic variants without functional validation 
Data mining from published data or publically available database without experimental validations 
Randomized clinical trials without a molecular target
Research in a cell-free system or a single cell line unless scientifically justified

  Executive Board
Editor-in-Chief
 
Xiao-Jing Wang
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
 
 
 
Executive Editors
 
 
 
 
 
John DiGiovanni, PhD
 
Editor for Special Issues and Reviews
 
Professor, Pharmacy/Toxicology
 
University of Texas Austin
 
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Jian Yu, PhD
 
Editor for translational cancer research
 
Professor, Pathology, Radiation Oncology
 
University of Pittsburg
 
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Richard Eckert, PhD
 
Editor for Basic Cancer Research
 
Professor and Chair, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
 
University of Maryland
 
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Rajesh Agarwal, PhD
 
Editor for Cancer Prevention
 
Professor and Vice Chair
 
Pharmaceutical Sciences
 
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
 
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Xiao-Jing Wang, MD, PhD
 
Editor for Clinical Cancer Research
 
Professor, Pathology
 
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
 
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Ming Tan, PhD
 
Editor for Molecular Epidemiology, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics
 
Professor and Chair
Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Biomathematics
Georgetown University
 
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Consulting Editors
 
Zigang Dong
Homel Institute Minnesota
 
Mien-Chie Hung
Chinese Medical University - Taiwan
 
Saraswati Sukumar
Johns Hopkins University
 
Stuart Yuspa
NCI