Why was the Journal of the National Cancer Institute created by the National Cancer Institute (NCI)?
The original Journal of the National Cancer Institute was created by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the 1940s to focus attention specifically on cancer research by providing the first venue for publication of exclusively cancer-related scientific papers. The journal’s name was later changed officially to the name of JNCI. In the 1960s, NCI inaugurated a second journal, Cancer Treatment Reports, dedicated to clinical cancer research. In 1987, NCI, under Director Vincent DeVita, M.D., decided to discontinue both JNCI and Cancer Treatment Reports. In March 1988, initially designed as an experiment, NCI inaugurated a new Journal of the National Cancer Institute, named to reflect the long lineage of scientific journal publications by NCI and to reflect the original name from the 1940s (this version was never referred to as ‘JNCI’). The new Journal would be dedicated to the rapid publication of the highest-quality cancer-related scientific papers from all areas of research. • Who has
