Cancer Research and Treatment

The journal has adopted policies, as specified by the ICMJE, regarding the use of AI in the preparation of materials intended for publication in the journal. Generative AI, including language models, chatbots, image creators, machine learning, or similar technologies, may be employed to enhance readability and language accuracy in scientific writing. However, chatbots or other AI-assisted technolo…

Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; 3) final approval of the version to be published; and 4) agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accura…

All potential conflicts of interest must be stated within the manuscript. This pertains to relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or other corporations whose products or services are related to the subject matter of the article. Such relationships include, but are not limited to, employment by an industrial concern, ownership of stock, membership on a standin…

CRT accepts the ICMJE recommendations for data sharing statement policy (https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/publishing-and-editorial-issues/clinical-trial-registration.html). To foster transparency, we encourage authors to state the availability of their data in your submission. Subject to ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: · Upload research data during the subm…

All published papers become the permanent property of the Korean Cancer Association. Upon acceptance of the manuscript, the authors will be required to sign a statement confirming that the manuscript contains no material the publication of which violates any copyright or other personal or proprietary right of any person or entity.

CRT is an open access journal. Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Authors do not need permission to use tables or figures published in CRT in othe…

CRT adopts a double-blind peer review, where author and reviewer identities are concealed from each other but visible to the decision-making editor. Reviewers interact only with an editor, ensuring an independent review. The acceptance criteria for all papers are based on the quality and originality of the research and its clinical and scientific significance. An initial decision will normally be …

For specific study designs, such as randomized control studies, studies of diagnostic accuracy, meta-analyses, observational studies and non-randomized studies, it is recommended that the authors follow the reporting guidelines listed in the following table. Initiative Type of study CONSORT(Source) Randomized controlled trialshttps://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/consort/ STARD(Sour…