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| Title |
A comparison of cancer burden and research spending reveals discrepancies in the distribution of research funding
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, July 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-12-526 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ashley JR Carter, Cecine N Nguyen |
| Abstract |
Ideally, the distribution of research funding for different types of cancer should be equitable with respect to the societal burden each type of cancer imposes. These burdens can be estimated in a variety of ways; "Years of Life Lost" (YLL) measures the severity of death in regard to the age it occurs, "Disability-Adjusted Life-Years" (DALY) estimates the effects of non-lethal disabilities incurred by disease and economic metrics focus on the losses to tax revenue, productivity or direct medical expenses. We compared research funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to a variety of burden metrics for the most common types of cancer to identify mismatches between spending and societal burden. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 69 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 | 20 | 29% |
| Australia | 8 | 12% |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 10% |
| Canada | 3 | 4% |
| Spain | 2 | 3% |
| Ireland | 1 | 1% |
| Jordan | 1 | 1% |
| Czechia | 1 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 24 | 35% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 53 | 77% |
| Scientists | 10 | 14% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 6% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 156 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 3% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 150 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 30 | 19% |
| Researcher | 27 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 24 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 6% |
| Other | 22 | 14% |
| Unknown | 26 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 50 | 32% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 10 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 4% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 33 | 21% |
| Unknown | 38 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 100. 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 19 March 2024.
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#431,147
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#389
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#1,858
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#3
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