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Received (2228), Duration of Peer Review (25 days/Mean), Days from Submission to First Decision (51 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (41 days/Mean), Accepted (52.8%/Mean), Production Time (45 days/Mean), Time to Publication (172 days/Mean), and Rejected (34.2%/Mean).
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Yu-Tong Han, Yue-Chuan Jiao, Chang Qiao, Hao-Wei Li, De-Hui Li
World J Clin Oncol
17(4):119059.
Published online Apr 24, 2026.
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Shen-Hao Zhang, Yang Yang, Yuan Zhang
World J Clin Oncol
17(4):117705.
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doi: 10.5306/wjco.v17.i4.117705
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Received: 12/13/2025
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Dong-Dong Ti, Peng Liu, Chun-Yan Wu, Zhi-Ming Shi, Shu-Ming Guo, Zhan-Cheng Gao
World J Clin Oncol
17(4):118606.
Published online Apr 24, 2026.
doi: 10.5306/wjco.v17.i4.118606
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Minireviews
Yi-Nong Yu, Shui-Quan Jin, Ye-Ting Lu, Lv-Zhou Han
World J Clin Oncol
17(4):117197.
Published online Apr 24, 2026.
doi: 10.5306/wjco.v17.i4.117197
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Received: 11/30/2025
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Zhi-Yong Liu, Ran Chen
World J Clin Oncol
17(4):117540.
Published online Apr 24, 2026.
doi: 10.5306/wjco.v17.i4.117540
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Nabil Ismaili, Fadila Guessous, Sanaa El Majjaoui
World J Clin Oncol
17(4):117805.
Published online Apr 24, 2026.
doi: 10.5306/wjco.v17.i4.117805
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Received: 12/15/2025
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Alexandra G Marneri, Efstathios T Pavlidis, Kalliopi E Stavrati, Christina Mouratidou, Athanasios Kofinas, Irida Konstantopoulou, Theodoros E Pavlidis
World J Clin Oncol
17(4):118631.
Published online Apr 24, 2026.
doi: 10.5306/wjco.v17.i4.118631
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Zhen-Yu Liu, Yu Zhou, Fu-Han Zhao, Lin Wang, Tie-Jun Pan, Lei Gao
World J Clin Oncol
17(4):118954.
Published online Apr 24, 2026.
doi: 10.5306/wjco.v17.i4.118954
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Retrospective Cohort Study
Katarzyna Stawarz, Anna Gorzelnik, Wojciech Klos, Jacek Korzon, Filip Kissin, Karolina Bienkowska-Pluta, Grzegorz Stawarz, Natalia Rusetska, Jakub Zwoliński
World J Clin Oncol
17(4):116329.
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doi: 10.5306/wjco.v17.i4.116329
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Received: 11/07/2025
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Ling Xiao, Yu-Di Liu, Xue Zhang, Shi-Chuan Zhang, Jia-Hua Lyu
World J Clin Oncol
17(4):116601.
Published online Apr 24, 2026.
doi: 10.5306/wjco.v17.i4.116601
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Retrospective Study
Pratibha Singh, Manoj Kumar Singh, Atul Mishra
World J Clin Oncol
17(4):115851.
Published online Apr 24, 2026.
doi: 10.5306/wjco.v17.i4.115851
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Hui-Feng Yuan, Dong-Lin Kuang, De-Chao Jiao, Yong-Hua Bi
World J Clin Oncol
17(4):118070.
Published online Apr 24, 2026.
doi: 10.5306/wjco.v17.i4.118070
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Observational Study
Yi-Ning Zhang, Tao Jiang, Peng-Jun Zhang, Hui-Juan Wang
World J Clin Oncol
17(4):119365.
Published online Apr 24, 2026.
doi: 10.5306/wjco.v17.i4.119365
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Prospective Study
Dinara Ryspayeva, Attila A Seyhan, Kaizhong Mu, Mengyue Liu, Connor Purcell, William J MacDonald, Volodymyr Halytskiy, Tetiana Drevytska, Mariia Inomistova, Natalia Khranovska, Oleksandr Potorocha, Lesia Taran, Olena Sumkina, Ivan Smolanka Sr, Wafik S El-Deiry
World J Clin Oncol
17(4):115287.
Published online Apr 24, 2026.
doi: 10.5306/wjco.v17.i4.115287
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Received: 10/12/2025
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Systematic Reviews
Tsampika-Vasileia Kalamara, Dimitrios A Andreikos, Konstantinos Dodos, Elisavet Georgiou, George Fotakopoulos, Nikolaos Foroglou, Dorothea Kapoukranidou, Vasiliki E Georgakopoulou
World J Clin Oncol
17(4):117460.
Published online Apr 24, 2026.
doi: 10.5306/wjco.v17.i4.117460
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