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Journal of Liver Cancer (J. Liver Cancer, JLC), an official journal of the Korean Liver Cancer Association (KLCA), is issued twice a year (March 31 and September 30) and published in English. The title of the journal is abbreviated to ‘J. Liver Cancer’. It was initially published by the name of The Journal of the Korean Liver Cancer Study Group as the formal scientific journal of the KLCA in 2002 (print ISSN 1596-6314), and has been renamed as JLC since its first edition in 2014.
The aim of the journal is to provide a forum for medical doctors and basic scientists working in the field of liver cancer. The journal covers basic and clinical researches on molecular and cell biology, pathophysiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of the liver cancer, especially common in the East Asia including B viral related hepatocellular carcinoma. JLC publishes original articles, case reports, reviews, and articles in the field of liver cancer. All of the submitted papers are peer-reviewed and the decision would be informed to the readers within three weeks. Open access to full text article is available in the official website of JLC (http://www.e-jlc.org), KoreaMed, Google Scholar, KoMCI, and KCI. All articles published in the Journal will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. All articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.