Infectious Agents And Cancer

Journal Title：Infectious Agents And Cancer

Infectious Agents and Cancer is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that encompasses all aspects of basic, clinical, epidemiological and translational research providing an insight into the association between chronic infections and cancer.

The journal welcomes submissions in the pathogen-related cancer areas and other related topics, in particular:

• HPV and anogenital cancers, as well as head and neck cancers;

• EBV and Burkitt lymphoma;

• HCV/HBV and hepatocellular carcinoma as well as lymphoproliferative diseases;

• HHV8 and Kaposi sarcoma;

• HTLV and leukemia;

• Cancers in Low- and Middle-income countries.

The link between infection and cancer has become well established over the past 50 years, and infection-associated cancer contribute up to 16% of cancers in developed countries and 33% in less developed countries.

Preventive vaccines have been developed for only two cancer-causing viruses, highlighting both the opportunity to prevent infection-associated cancers by vaccination and the gaps that remain before vaccines can be developed for other cancer-causing agents. These gaps are due to incomplete understanding of the basic biology, natural history, epidemiology of many of the pathogens that cause cancer, the mechanisms they exploit to cause cancer, and how to interrupt progression to cancer in human populations. Early diagnosis or identification of lesions at high risk of progression represent the current most critical research area of the field supported by recent advances in genomics and proteomics technologies.

《传染病原体与癌症》是一本开放获取、同行评审的在线期刊，涵盖基础、临床、流行病学和转化研究的各个方面，深入了解慢性感染与癌症之间的关系。

该期刊欢迎病原体相关癌症领域和其他相关主题的投稿，特别是：

• HPV 和肛门生殖器癌以及头颈癌；

• EBV 和伯基特淋巴瘤；

• HCV/HBV 和肝细胞癌以及淋巴增生性疾病；

• HHV8 和卡波西肉瘤；

• HTLV 和白血病；

• 中低收入国家的癌症。

过去 50 年来，感染与癌症之间的联系已得到充分证实，感染相关癌症占发达国家的癌症发病率为 16%，欠发达国家的癌症发病率为 33%。

目前仅针对两种致癌病毒开发了预防性疫苗，这既凸显了通过接种疫苗预防感染相关癌症的机会，也凸显了在开发针对其他致癌因子的疫苗之前仍然存在的差距。这些差距是由于对许多致癌病原体的基本生物学、自然史和流行病学、它们导致癌症的机制以及如何阻止人类群体向癌症发展尚未完全了解。早期诊断或识别高风险病变是该领域目前最关键的研究领域，基因组学和蛋白质组学技术的最新进展为其提供了支持。

Infectious Agents And Cancer创刊于2006年，由BioMed Central出版商出版，收稿方向涵盖ONCOLOGY - IMMUNOLOGY全领域，此刊是中等级别的SCI期刊，所以过审相对来讲不是特别难，但是该刊专业认可度不错，仍然是一本值得选择的SCI期刊 。平均审稿速度17 Weeks，影响因子指数3.2，该期刊近期没有被列入国际期刊预警名单，广大学者值得一试。