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We searched Medline (PubMed), Embase, and the Cochrane Library (2000 to 9 October 2025) for oncology-focused articles labelled as systematic or scoping reviews, screened in duplicate by a human reviewer and a ChatGPT-5-assisted system, with a third reviewer resolving disagreements. Cancer subspecialty, search-to-publication interval, and abstract-level protocol registration status and registry type were extracted. Of 92,800 references, 49,378 (53%) were systematic (n = 46,318) or scoping (n = 3060) reviews. Review volume rose sharply from 2000 (n = 61) to 2024 (n = 6313), with scoping reviews increasing steadily. Data for 2025 were available only through 9 October and were therefore not directly comparable with prior complete years. Among 9297 reviews reporting search dates, mean search-to-publication lag was 13 months, unchanged over time (p = 0.09). Only 2235 reviews (4.5%) reported protocol registration in their abstract, predominantly via the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO). Oncology evidence-synthesis output has grown, yet publication timeliness and abstract-level registration reporting have not improved, raising questions about its currency and verifiability.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/curroncol33090571","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,22]],"date-time":"2026-09-22T09:04:17Z","timestamp":1790067857000},"page":"571","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Trends in Volume, Timeliness, and Reporting Quality of Oncology Systematic and Scoping Reviews: A 25-Year Analysis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"33","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0004-8048-9586","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nandi","family":"Edwards","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hadia","family":"Malik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Daniel","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8356-6338","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gabriel","family":"Boldt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"London Health Sciences Centre, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5W9, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3782-4463","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Michael","family":"Lock","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"London Health Sciences Centre, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5W9, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jennifer","family":"Leigh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6195-8624","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ronald","family":"Chow","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada"},{"name":"Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Munn, Z., Peters, M.D.J., Stern, C., Tufanaru, C., McArthur, A., and Aromataris, E. 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