分子癌癥治療學將側重于在以下領域對癌癥治療具有意義的基礎研究:實驗癌癥治療學、分子靶點的識別、化學預防靶點、新模型、癌癥化學和藥物發現、分子和細胞藥理學、腫瘤分子分類、生物信息學和計算分子生物學。該雜志為這些新興學科提供了一個專門關注癌癥研究的出版論壇。論文經過嚴格審查，只有那些報告新穎、及時、有意義的研究結果并符合高科學價值標準的論文才會被接受發表。

Molecular Cancer Therapeutics will focus on basic research that has implications for cancer therapeutics in the following areas: Experimental Cancer Therapeutics, Identification of Molecular Targets, Targets for Chemoprevention, New Models, Cancer Chemistry and Drug Discovery, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Molecular Classification of Tumors, and Bioinformatics and Computational Molecular Biology. The journal provides a publication forum for these emerging disciplines that is focused specifically on cancer research. Papers are stringently reviewed and only those that report results of novel, timely, and significant research and meet high standards of scientific merit will be accepted for publication.