Current Opinion in Oncology publishes reviews and not original research, and the reviews in it are commissioned by the editors rather than sent in over the transom.《Current Opinion in Oncology》刊的是综述而非原始研究，其中每一篇都由编辑约稿，不由作者自行投来。
A reader who works through the six issues of one volume has been taken round clinical oncology once, and can begin the next volume where the last one stopped.把一卷六期读完的读者，等于把临床肿瘤学巡过一遍，下一卷可以接着上一卷停下的地方读。
The unit of the journal is the section, and each section belongs to one region of the field. Solid tumours are covered by site, such as lung, breast, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, gynaecological and head and neck, with haematological malignancy, neuro-oncology, sarcoma and melanoma standing beside them.这份刊以「分栏」为单位，每一栏对应领域里的一块。实体瘤按部位分，肺、乳腺、胃肠、泌尿生殖、妇科与头颈各占一栏，血液肿瘤、神经肿瘤、肉瘤与黑色素瘤并排另立。
The endocrine tumours and the rare cancers that do not fit a site are kept in a section of their own, because a general oncologist meets them too seldom to read about them in passing.内分泌肿瘤以及按部位分不进去的罕见癌单独留一栏，普通肿瘤科医师碰到它们的次数太少，顺带读过去记不住。
Each section opens with a short overview from its editor, and the reviews behind the overview go deeper into the trials and the arguments of the past year.每一栏以该栏编辑的一篇短评开头，短评后面的各篇综述再往深处走，落到过去一年那些试验与争论上。
Reviews are short by design. A reader is meant to finish one in a sitting and come away knowing whether a practice has moved, not to learn the subject from the beginning.综述按设计就很短。读者该在一坐之间读完一篇，出来时知道某个做法有没有动，而不必从头学这门学问。
The reference list carries the weight of the argument. It stays close to the papers a reader would really follow up, and a review can open the clinic as well as the reading.参考文献表承担论证的分量。它紧贴读者真会去找来读的那些论文，一篇综述因此既能开门诊的题，也能开读物的题。
Lung cancer shows how narrow a section can get. The reviews in it split between early disease and advanced disease, and within advanced disease between drivers that can be targeted and tumours without one.肺癌一栏能看出分栏可以分得多细。里面的综述先分早期与晚期，晚期里再分有靶点可打的驱动基因与没有驱动基因的肿瘤。
The biology sections sit at the back of the issue and take up the mechanisms that clinical papers assume. A reader who skips them is reading conclusions without their premises.生物学几栏排在刊末，收的是临床论文默认读者已经懂的机制。跳过它们的人，读到的只是结论而没有前提。
Supportive care and palliative care are treated as clinical subjects with their own evidence, not as an appendix to treatment reviews.支持治疗与姑息治疗被当作有独立证据的临床科目来处理，没有附在治疗综述后面当尾巴。
The journal does not publish trial reports, case reports or laboratory work that has not yet reached patients. Those belong elsewhere, and the editors say so in the instructions to authors.这份刊不登试验报告、病例报告，也不登还没走到病人身上的实验室工作。这些各有去处，编辑在作者须知里写得很清楚。
Its reader is a practising oncologist or a trainee who needs the year's movement in a specialty other than the one they work in every day.它的读者是执业肿瘤科医师，或者是轮转到别的专科、需要知道那一片这一年怎么动的受训医师。
Because the corpus is rebuilt every year, an older volume keeps a use that a research paper loses quickly. It records what was believed at a date, which is what a committee or a reviewer often needs to know.正因语料每年重做一遍，旧卷留着研究论文很快会失去的用处。它记下某一年人们信的是什么，而评审委员会或审稿人常常正要知道这个。
Nothing in the journal is presented as a guideline. The reviews argue a position and leave the reader to weigh it against the protocols their own service follows.刊里没有一篇以指南自居。综述提出一个立场，剩下的交给读者，让他们拿去与本部门照着执行的方案相权衡。
History
Volume 1 appeared in 1989 under Current Science of Philadelphia, and the National Library of Medicine catalogues the title from v1n1 of that year.第 1 卷 1989 年由费城的 Current Science 出版，美国国家医学图书馆的编目也从那一年的第 1 卷第 1 期起算。
From the beginning it was indexed in Index Medicus and MEDLINE, a distinction that separates a review journal of record from a magazine of summaries.它从一开始就进了《医学索引》与 MEDLINE，这个身份把一份有存档地位的综述刊与一份摘要汇编区分开来。
The imprint later passed to Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, and the title is now issued within Wolters Kluwer and reached through Ovid as well as through the publisher's own platform.出版印记后来转到 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins，如今归在 Wolters Kluwer 旗下发行，除出版社自己的平台外也经 Ovid 取阅。
Six issues a year have been the rhythm, which gives each of the sections one airing in a volume and leaves the rest of the year for whatever has changed since.一年六期是它的节奏，每一栏在一卷里轮到一次，剩下的日子留给此后又有变动的地方。
Volume 38 carries 2026, so the numbering has run unbroken since 1989.第 38 卷对应 2026 年，编号自 1989 年起没有断过。
Output is modest for a journal with this many sections, running between about eighty and a hundred and ten papers in a year, which is what a commissioned review programme can sustain without thinning.对一份有这么多分栏的刊来说，产量算节制，一年大致八十到一百一十篇，约稿制能撑住而又不稀释的，就是这个量。
The Crossref deposit for the title holds 926 records, a set smaller than the full run because the earlier volumes were registered late.这个刊名在 Crossref 的存缴有 926 条记录，比全部卷期要少，原因是早年各卷登记得晚。
The impact factor climbed to 3.645 in 2021 and 3.915 in 2022, then settled at 2.8 in 2023 and 2.4 in both 2024 and 2025.影响因子在 2021 年升到 3.645，2022 年 3.915，随后落到 2023 年的 2.8，并在 2024 与 2025 两年都停在 2.4。
The five-year figure of 2.7 sits above the two-year figure, which is the shape a review journal tends to show when its back issues go on being read.五年影响因子 2.7 高过两年值，综述刊在旧刊仍被读的时候往往就是这个形状。
Total citations stand at 2,892 and the cited half-life at 7.5 years, a long tail for a title of this size and a sign that clinicians return to a volume after the year it describes has passed.总被引 2,892 次，引用半衰期 7.5 年，对这个体量的刊来说尾巴很长，说明它所写的那一年过去之后，临床医师仍会回头翻那一卷。
The Journal Citation Indicator is 0.34 and the title sits in Q3 of Oncology at rank 214 of 333, with a percentile of 35.9.期刊引文指标为 0.34，在肿瘤学门类里列 Q3，333 种刊中排第 214 位，百分位 35.9。
Gold open access accounts for 12.6 per cent of the content, so the subscription route is still the normal one for readers and for authors.金色开放获取占全部内容的一成二点六，订阅这条路对读者与作者仍属常规。
It belongs to a family of Current Opinion titles that share a format, a page design and a way of commissioning, and the oncology member of that family has kept the shape since its first volume.它属于 Current Opinion 这一族刊，各刊共用一种体例、一种版式与一种约稿办法，其中肿瘤学这一本自第 1 卷起就保持了这个形状。
Editors
Jean Klastersky of the Institut Jules Bordet in Brussels is editor-in-chief, and the commissioning of every section runs through his office.主编是布鲁塞尔朱尔·博尔代研究所的 Jean Klastersky，各栏的约稿都经他这一处。
He has spent a career on infections in the cancer patient and on supportive care, which is one reason the supportive sections of the journal are argued with the same rigour as the treatment sections.他毕生做的是肿瘤病人的感染与支持治疗，这也是本刊支持治疗各栏与治疗各栏论证得一样严的原因之一。
The lung section is edited by Robert Pirker of Vienna and by Caicun Zhou of Shanghai, and the pair puts the European and the Chinese reading of the same trial data side by side.肺癌一栏由维也纳的 Robert Pirker 与上海的周彩存共编，这一对把同一批试验数据的欧洲读法与中国的读法并排放着。
That arrangement matters in a field where a drug is approved on one side of the world years before it reaches the other, and where a reader needs to know which of the two situations applies to them.在这样一个世界里，一种药在这一边获批可能比到那一边早好几年，读者需要知道自己面对的是哪一种情形，这样的安排就有用了。
Christiane Jungels edits the section on endocrine tumours and rare cancers, the part of the journal where single-institution series still count as evidence.内分泌肿瘤与罕见癌一栏由 Christiane Jungels 主编，这是全刊里单中心系列研究仍算得上证据的那一块。
The introductions to the 2023 volume were signed by Joël Guigay and by Arif Hussain among others, and they set out what each section thought had changed that year.2023 年那一卷的各篇卷首语，署名者有 Joël Guigay 与 Arif Hussain 等人，各篇交代该栏认为当年变了什么。
Section editors write the overview that opens their own section and choose the reviews behind it, so the argument of a section is one person's judgement of the year.各栏编辑亲自写开启本栏的那篇短评，也由他们挑选其后的综述，一栏的论证因此出于一个人对那一年的判断。
The full editorial board is printed in the front matter of each issue, with affiliations, and it is longer than the list of sections because most sections carry several editors.完整的编委会名单印在每期卷首，附有单位，比栏目数要长，因为多数栏不止一位编辑。
Commissioned reviews are still reviewed. A draft goes back to the section editor and to at least one outside referee before it is accepted, and the journal reports the usual interval from acceptance to print.约来的稿子照样要审。稿子回到栏编辑手上，再经至少一位外审，才谈得上录用，从录用到见刊的间隔刊方照常公布。
A reader who wants to write for the journal does not send a manuscript. The route is a short proposal to the section editor, who decides whether the topic is due in that year's round.想为这份刊写稿的人不必寄整篇稿子。路子是先向栏编辑递一份简短选题，由他决定这个题目是不是轮到本年这一轮。