Cancer Research and Treatment is a peer-reviewed open access publication of the Korean Cancer Association, Korean Society of Medical Oncology, and Korean Association for Lung Cancer. It is published quarterly. Abbreviated title is Cancer Res Treat. It accepts manuscripts relevant to experimental and clinical cancer research. Subjects include carcinogenesis, tumor biology, molecular oncology, cancer genetics, tumor immunology, epidemiology, predictive markers and cancer prevention, pathology, cancer diagnosis, screening and therapies including chemotherapy, surgery, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, gene therapy, multimodality treatment and palliative care.

Cancer Research and Treatment (CRT) is indexed/tracked/covered by SCI, Medline, PubMed, PubMed Central, KoreaMed, CrossRef, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), SCOPUS, KoMCI, and Google Scholar.