# Acta oncologica

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## TL;DR

Acta Oncologica is a Nordic clinical oncology journal, now fully open access, read by medical and radiation oncologists and cancer epidemiologists, especially in Scandinavia.

## Summary

Acta Oncologica is published in Uppsala, Sweden, by Medical Journals Sweden AB. Its about page describes a broad remit across cancer epidemiology, prevention, translational oncology, cancer immunology, diagnostics, medical oncology, precision medicine, radiotherapy, radiophysics, psychosocial oncology, rehabilitation and palliative care, and lists original articles, review articles, short reports, editorials, letters and commentaries as article types. The journal traces its history to 1963 and has carried the present title since 1987, the start year in the NLM catalogue. Since moving to Medical Journals Sweden in 2024 it has been fully open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence with an article processing charge and anonymous peer review, and it is listed in DOAJ. Indexed in MEDLINE.

## Fields

- Kind: Journal
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Also known as: Acta Oncologica; Acta Oncol
- Publisher: Medical Journals Sweden AB (MJS Publishing)
- Scope: clinical oncology
- Access: open-access

## Sources

- Homepage: https://medicaljournalssweden.se/actaoncologica
- NLM Catalog: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/8709065
- DOAJ record: https://doaj.org/toc/1651-226X

## Connected records

- collections: [PubMed & Europe PMC](https://onco.cc/collections/pubmed-europepmc/)
- people: [Johanna Mattson](https://onco.cc/people/johanna-mattson/), [Kjetil Taskén](https://onco.cc/people/kjetil-tasken/), [Pia Vihinen](https://onco.cc/people/pia-vihinen/)
- key papers: [Comparability and validity of cancer registry data in the north-west of Russia](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-barchuk-registry-validity-acta-oncol-2021/), [The hazard of accelerated tumor clonogen repopulation during radiotherapy](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-withers-acta-oncol/), [The predictive value of KRAS, NRAS, BRAF, PIK3CA and PTEN for anti-EGFR treatment in metastatic colorectal cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-pik3ca-colorectal-acta-oncol-2014/), [Updated standard operating procedures for electrochemotherapy of cutaneous tumours and skin metastases](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-gehl-acta-oncol/)

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