BMC Cancer is a peer-reviewed open access medical journal that publishes original research on cancer and oncology.

It was established in 2001 at a time when open access publishing was in its infancy, and is published by BioMed Central.

It was one of the first journals to be open access and exclusively published online.

[1] The journal is abstracted and indexed by PubMed, MEDLINE, CAS, EMBASE, Scopus, Current Contents, and CABI.

[2] According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2-year impact factor was 3.4 in 2023.