The International Journal of Cancer (IJC) is the official journal of the Union for International Cancer Control—UICC; it appears twice a month. IJC invites submission of manuscripts under a broad scope of topics relevant to experimental and clinical cancer research and publishes original Research Articles and Short Reports under the following categories:
Cancer Epidemiology
Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics
Infectious Causes of Cancer
Innovative Tools and Methods
Molecular Cancer Biology
Tumor Immunology and Microenvironment
Tumor Markers and Signatures
Cancer Therapy and Prevention

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Christoph Plass, Heidelberg, Germany

Associate Editors
Prof. Heike Allgayer, Mannheim, Germany
Prof. Petra Boukamp, Heidelberg, Germany
Prof. Adelheid Cerwenka, Mannheim, Germany
Prof. Norbert Fusenig, Heidelberg, Germany
Prof. Hinrich Gronemeyer, Illkirch-Grafenstaden, France
Prof. Kari Hemminki, Heidelberg, Germany
Prof. Rudolf Kaaks, Heidelberg, Germany
Prof. Peter Lichter, Heidelberg, Germany
Prof. Anthony B Miller, Toronto, Canada
Prof. Paolo Vineis, London, UK
Prof. Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz, Heidelberg, Germany

Managing Editor
Dr. Franca Bianchini, Heidelberg, Germany

Assistant Managing Editor, Production
Yvonne Ohl, Heidelberg, Germany

Editorial Assistants
Data Integrity
Dr. Stefanie Heck
Heidelberg, Germany
Cell line authentication
Dr. Nicole Souren
Heidelberg, Germany
Social Media
Corinna Ostiguy
Heidelberg, Germany

Editorial Office
International Journal of Cancer
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, V962
69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Tel: +49-6221-42-4800
E-mail: intjcanc@dkfz-heidelberg.de

Consultant for Biostatistics
Prof. Annette Kopp-Schneider, Heidelberg, Germany

Science Writers
Dr. Katherine Austin
Vancouver, Canada
Dr. Kara Rogers
Madison, USA
Caroline Seydel
Long Beach, USA
UICC Board of Directors
Dr Sanchia Aranda, President (Australia)
HRH Princess Dina Mired, President-Elect (Jordan)
Tezer Kutluk, Immediate Past President (Turkey)
Dr Benjamin O. Anderson (USA)
Dr Heather Bryant (Canada)
Dr Maira Caleffi (Brazil)
Eduardo Cazap (Argentina)
Sally Cowal (United States)
Professor Anil D'Cruz (India)
Professor Jeff Dunn (Australia)

Nick Grant (UK)
Mhamed Harif (Morocco)
Hussein Khaled (Egypt)
Anne Lee (Hong Kong S.A.R., China)
Professor Gilbert Lenoir (France)
Dr Saunthari Somasundaram (Malaysia)
Ann Steyn (South Africa)

Editorial Board
Helmut Bartsch (Heidelberg, Germany)
Mina J. Bissell (Berkeley, USA)
C. Richard Boland (Dallas, USA)
Elisabeth Brambilla (Grenoble, France)
Webster K. Cavenee (La Jolla, USA)
Ann F. Chambers (London, Canada)
Anthony T.C. Chan (Shatin, Hong Kong)
Lena Claesson-Welsh (Uppsala, Sweden)
Joseph Costello (San Francisco, USA)
Pierre Coulie (Brussels, Belgium)
Jack M. Cuzick (London, UK)
Hugues de Thé (Paris, France)
Eleftherios P. Diamandis (Toronto, Canada)
Joakim Dillner (Malmö, Sweden)
Dylan Edwards (Norwich, UK)
Ros A. Eeles (Sutton, UK)
Manel Esteller (Madrid, Spain)
Isaiah J. Fidler (Houston, USA)
John K. Field (Liverpool, UK)
David Forman (Lyon, France)
Silvia Franceschi (Lyon, France)
Eduardo L. Franco (Montreal, Canada)
Simone Fulda (Frankfurt, Germany)
Gary E. Gallick (Houston, USA)
Martin J. Glennie (Southampton, UK)
Masanori Hatakeyama (Tokyo, Japan)
Harald zur Hausen (Heidelberg, Germany)
Carl-Henrik Heldin (Uppsala, Sweden)
Meenhard Herlyn (Philadelphia, USA)
Richard Houlston (Sutton, UK)
Perwez S. Hussain (Bethesda, USA)
Ruth F. Jarrett (Glasgow, UK)
Jos Jonkers (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Robert S. Kerbel (Toronto, Canada)
Alexander Knuth (Doha, Qatar)
Ralf Küppers (Essen, Germany)

Claire E. Lewis (Sheffield, UK)
Dongxin Lin (Beijing, China)
Douglas R. Lowy (Bethesda, USA)
Maria Li Lung (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Elisebeth Lynge (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Alberto Mantovani (Milan, Italy)
Suresh Mathivanan (Mlebourne, Australia)
Sam M. Mbulaiteye (Bethesda, USA)
Chris J. L. M. Meijer (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Hasan Mukhtar (Madison, USA)
Karl Münger (Boston, USA)
Christophe Nicot (Kansas City, USA)
Hiroshi Ohshima (Suruga-ku, Japan)
Mehmet Ozturk (Balcova, Turkey)
Athanasios G. Papavassiliou (Athens, Greece)
Jae-Gahb Park (Seoul, ROK)
Donald Maxwell Parkin (Oxford, UK)
Manuel Perucho (Badelona, Spain)
Gerd P. Pfeifer (Grand Rapids, USA)
Paul Pharoah (Cambridge, UK)
Ranju Ralhan (Toronto, Canada)
Hans-Georg Rammensee (Tübingen, Germany)
Guido Reifenberger (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Thomas Ried (Bethesda, USA)
Harvey A. Risch (New Haven, USA)
Pedro Romero (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Shimon Sakaguchi (Osaka, Japan)
Hélène Sancho-Garnier (Teyran, France)
Guido Sauter (Hamburg, Germany)
Mark Schiffman (Bethesda, USA)
Lalilta A. Shevde-Samant (Birmingham, USA)
Young-Joon Surh (Seoul, ROK)
Dean G. Tang (Smithville, USA)
Luisa L. Villa (São Paulo, Brazil)
Keijo Wakabayashi (Shizuoka, Japan)
Journal Production
E-mail: jrnlprodIJC@cadmus.com