BMJ
The BMJ is the British Medical Association's journal. It published Doll and Hill's 1950 smoking and lung cancer study and remains a leading critic of weak cancer-drug evidence and a champion of open data.
Weekly general-medicine journal with a long record in cancer epidemiology (Doll and Hill 1950; Doll and Peto's 50-year doctors study 2004) and in screening and health-services research such as HPV self-sampling. Research articles are free to read; the journal requires data-sharing statements and has campaigned for clinical trial transparency (AllTrials) and against surrogate-endpoint-driven approvals. Strong investigations desk covering the pharmaceutical industry and regulators.
Women can collect their own screening sample at home with no loss of accuracy if the laboratory uses a PCR test. Sending kits directly is the most effective way to reach women who do not attend, which matters because most cervical cancers occur in under-screened women.
Smoking is the single largest preventable cause of cancer death, and quitting at any age helps, with the greatest gain from quitting young. Cessation support belongs in every cancer service, including lung screening programmes.
Doll and Hill's 1950 study is where the evidence that smoking causes cancer begins. Everything from cigarette warnings and tax to smoke-free laws and lung screening eligibility descends from this study and the cohort that followed it.