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Looking to publish in a Discover journal? Springer Nature provides interactive tutorials to help you as an author write the best article possible by providing points to consider, from your background reading and study design to manuscript structuring and figure preparation. Find out more. (this opens in a new tab)

In Review, a new preprint service brought to you by Research Square, is available on Discover Oncology. By opting in to this service, you will be able to:

• Showcase your work to funders and others with a citable preprint while it is under review 
• Track the status of your manuscript through the peer review process on a more granular level 
• Benefit from early sharing, such as more collaboration opportunities and earlier citations.

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The journal publishes guest-edited Topical Collections on emerging hot topics of relevance to all aspects of cancer research. Our Topical Collections allow readers to quickly identify research on subject areas of especial interest to them.

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As of January 2021 Hormones and Cancer (eISSN: 1868-8500) has been relaunched as Discover Oncology (eISSN: 2730-6011), a fully open access journal covering all aspects of cancer research. As a fully open access journal, all content is published under a CC BY open access license, and freely available to readers worldwide, enabling the widest possible dissemination and reuse. All non-OA content published prior to the title change is now free-to-read. Find out more (this opens in a new tab)