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| Title |
Imagine a world without cancer
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Cancer, March 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2407-14-186 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Björn LDM Brücher, Gary Lyman, Richard van Hillegersberg, Raphael E Pollock, Florian Lordick, Han-Kwang Yang, Toshikazu Ushijima, Khay-Guan Yeoh, Tomas Skricka, Wojciech Polkowski, Grzegorz Wallner, Vic Verwaal, Alfredo Garofalo, Domenico D’Ugo, Franco Roviello, Hans-Ulrich Steinau, Timothy J Wallace, Martin Daumer, Nitah Maihle, Thomas J Reid, Michel Ducreux, Yuko Kitagawa, Alexander Knuth, Bruno Zilberstein, Scott R Steele, Ijaz S Jamall |
| Abstract |
Since the "War on Cancer" was declared in 1971, the United States alone has expended some $300 billion on research, with a heavy focus on the role of genomics in anticancer therapy. Voluminous data have been collected and analyzed. However, in hindsight, any achievements made have not been realized in clinical practice in terms of overall survival or quality of life extended. This might be justified because cancer is not one disease but a conglomeration of multiple diseases, with widespread heterogeneity even within a single tumor type. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 45 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 10 | 22% |
| Spain | 5 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 11% |
| Canada | 3 | 7% |
| Germany | 3 | 7% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| Ireland | 1 | 2% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| Ecuador | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 7% |
| Unknown | 12 | 27% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 26 | 58% |
| Scientists | 11 | 24% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 6 | 13% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 63 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Sweden | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 60 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Professor | 9 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 13% |
| Researcher | 7 | 11% |
| Other | 6 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 10% |
| Other | 20 | 32% |
| Unknown | 7 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 19 | 30% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 14% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 10 | 16% |
| Unknown | 14 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 September 2017.
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#1,230,989
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#161
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#12,642
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#4
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Altmetric has tracked 23,881,329 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 8,483 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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