Breast Cancer Treatment Studies

Breast Cancer Treatment Studies is a research topic within Cancer Research. Science Explorer counts 54k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on molecular research, treatment response, and prognostic markers in breast cancer. It covers topics such as gene expression patterns, molecular subtypes, neoadjuvant therapy, radiotherapy, and the impact of hormone receptors on survival. The papers also discuss the development of clinical practice guidelines for breast cancer management.

Gene Expression
Breast Tumours
Treatment Response
Molecular Subtypes
Prognostic Markers
Neoadjuvant Therapy
Radiotherapy
Hormone Receptors
Survival Analysis
Clinical Practice Guidelines

Research works: 54k
In the world top 10%: 5.5k
Top-10% rate: 10.2%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +8%
Largest producer: United States

Breast Cancer Treatment Studies

Which countries lead Breast Cancer Treatment Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.7k and 1.9k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 2.7k works
2 China 1.9k works
3 India 648 works
4 United Kingdom 607 works
5 Italy 519 works
6 Japan 420 works
7 Germany 403 works
8 South Korea 356 works
9 Spain 338 works
10 Türkiye 292 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States2,718 · 33.2%China1,899 · 23.2%India648 · 7.9%United Kingdom607 · 7.4%6 others listed2,328 · 28.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Breast Cancer Treatment Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Breast Cancer Treatment Studies research, followed by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 165 works
2 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States 110 works
3 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States 105 works
4 Mayo ClinicUnited States 85 works
5 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 83 works
6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 76 works
7 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 75 works
8 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 65 works
9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 62 works
10 University of TorontoCanada 56 works

Who are the leading researchers in Breast Cancer Treatment Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Breast Cancer Treatment Studies include Douglas G. Altman, Ahmedin Jemal and Rebecca L. Siegel.

1 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
2 Ahmedin Jemal United States 761k citations
3 Rebecca L. Siegel United States 582k citations
4 Freddie Bray France 550k citations
5 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
6 Stacey L. Gabriel United States 402k citations
7 Robert John Tibshirani United States 396k citations
8 Gad A. Getz United States 364k citations
9 Elaine R. Mardis United States 346k citations
10 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Breast Cancer Treatment Studies?

The most cited paper in Breast Cancer Treatment Studies is "New Guidelines to Evaluate the Response to Treatment in Solid Tumors" (Patrick Therasse, Susan G. Arbuck, Elizabeth A. Eisenhauer et al., 2000), with 15,773 citations. Next come "Evaluation of Factors Related to Late Recurrence - Later than 10 Years after the Initial Treatment - in Primary Breast Cancer" (13,212) and "Use of Chemotherapy plus a Monoclonal Antibody against HER2 for Metastatic Breast Cancer That Overexpresses HER2" (11,628).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	New Guidelines to Evaluate the Response to Treatment in Solid Tumors Patrick Therasse, Susan G. Arbuck, Elizabeth A. Eisenhauer et al. · JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute	2 Feb 2000	15,773
2	Evaluation of Factors Related to Late Recurrence - Later than 10 Years after the Initial Treatment - in Primary Breast Cancer Reiki Nishimura, Tomofumi Osako, Yasuyuki Nishiyama et al. · Oncology Open access	2013	13,212
3	Use of Chemotherapy plus a Monoclonal Antibody against HER2 for Metastatic Breast Cancer That Overexpresses HER2 Dennis J. Slamon, Brian R Leyland-Jones, Steven Shak et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access	15 Mar 2001	11,628
4	Gene expression patterns of breast carcinomas distinguish tumor subclasses with clinical implications Thérese Sørlie, Charles M. Perou, Robert John Tibshirani et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access	11 Sep 2001	11,073
5	Gene expression profiling predicts clinical outcome of breast cancer Laura van ‘t Veer, Hongyue A. Dai, Marc J. van de Vijver et al. · Nature Open access	2002	9,661

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Where is Breast Cancer Treatment Studies research done?

The largest centres of Breast Cancer Treatment Studies research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Seoul (South Korea), Beijing (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rozzano.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 New YorkUnited States 231 works
2 SeoulSouth Korea 223 works
3 BeijingChina 217 works
4 ShanghaiChina 177 works
5 LondonUnited Kingdom 165 works
6 BostonUnited States 157 works
7 GuangzhouChina 147 works
8 HoustonUnited States 141 works
9 TokyoJapan 119 works
10 RomeItaly 111 works

Where it is the local speciality

RozzanoIT · 26.9 works15×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Breast Cancer Treatment Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Breast Cancer Treatment Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Humanitas University and Karolinska Institutet score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged

40%

Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share

10%

Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale

30%

Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%

10%

Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad

10%

Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Harvard UniversityUnited States	81.0	18.0%	5.1×	165	-3.0%
2	Humanitas UniversityItaly	75.9	22.0%	16.8×	25	+74.2%
3	Karolinska InstitutetSweden	73.0	15.6%	7.0×	41	+15.8%
4	Institute of Cancer ResearchUnited Kingdom	66.7	19.6%	33.5×	11	+3.4%
5	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina	65.8	16.1%	3.9×	83	+11.4%
6	Harbin Medical UniversityChina	64.3	17.4%	10.3×	36	+139.5%
7	University of California, San FranciscoUnited States	63.4	13.6%	5.7×	42	+2.9%
8	Royal College of Surgeons in IrelandIreland	62.1	15.2%	10.9×	11	+68.2%
9	McGill UniversityCanada	62.0	14.0%	2.8×	29	+29.3%
10	Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreItaly	61.7	16.0%	7.9×	35	+54.9%
11	Université Libre de BruxellesBelgium	61.2	15.3%	7.3×	23	+2.9%
12	Yale UniversityUnited States	60.8	16.8%	3.4×	38	-0.1%
13	University of MilanItaly	60.4	23.4%	3.4×	23	-18.5%
14	Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea	59.1	10.2%	4.1×	47	+28.9%
15	Duke UniversityUnited States	59.1	10.5%	3.6×	30	+38.3%
16	University of PittsburghUnited States	58.7	21.0%	2.8×	23	-18.2%
17	Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain	58.6	20.5%	2.1×	14	+5.1%
18	Sichuan UniversityChina	58.3	13.9%	2.3×	52	+51.8%
19	University of TorontoCanada	57.7	14.4%	2.7×	56	-24.8%
20	Cornell UniversityUnited States	57.7	13.1%	2.7×	36	+20.6%
21	University of CopenhagenDenmark	57.6	14.4%	2.4×	23	+65.6%
22	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom	57.5	20.1%	1.6×	19	-3.3%
23	University of ChicagoUnited States	57.1	18.3%	2.5×	22	+16.4%
24	Stanford UniversityUnited States	57.0	12.2%	2.2×	34	+9.3%
25	Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina	56.7	9.1%	7.0×	76	+29.9%
26	Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea	56.7	15.3%	5.0×	47	-1.4%
27	Lund UniversitySweden	56.5	9.7%	4.4×	26	+36.0%
28	University of Southern DenmarkDenmark	56.0	17.4%	2.3×	10	+9.2%
29	China Medical UniversityChina	55.8	17.5%	6.3×	27	+16.1%
30	Emory UniversityUnited States	55.7	14.5%	4.0×	33	+12.9%
31	Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of GalwayIreland	55.1	16.8%	6.5×	15	-4.2%
32	University of GothenburgSweden	54.9	11.8%	4.3×	21	+49.5%
33	Universitat de BarcelonaSpain	54.7	13.0%	3.5×	28	+45.6%
34	Sungkyunkwan UniversitySouth Korea	54.4	14.3%	6.8×	48	-7.7%
35	Nanjing Medical UniversityChina	54.4	11.1%	5.0×	46	+74.1%
36	Maastricht UniversityNetherlands	54.2	10.1%	4.7×	19	+3.7%
37	Aarhus UniversityDenmark	53.8	15.9%	1.5×	13	+12.2%
38	University of RochesterUnited States	53.5	14.1%	4.1×	19	+50.5%
39	Chongqing Medical UniversityChina	52.8	11.7%	4.7×	27	+60.3%
40	KU LeuvenBelgium	52.8	21.0%	1.7×	16	-25.2%
41	Baylor College of MedicineUnited States	52.6	17.2%	3.1×	16	-23.5%
42	University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States	52.5	8.0%	4.1×	76	-8.6%
43	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina	51.4	10.6%	2.1×	62	+8.0%
44	University of Naples Federico IIItaly	50.8	23.3%	1.4×	10	+2.5%
45	University of Hong KongChina	50.4	15.5%	1.6×	15	+40.6%
46	University of GroningenNetherlands	49.1	17.6%	1.6×	12	-22.0%
47	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands	48.9	17.1%	2.2×	14	-36.7%
48	National University of SingaporeSingapore	48.9	12.9%	1.1×	13	+57.2%
49	University of UlsanSouth Korea	48.1	14.9%	8.8×	17	+1.0%
50	Chinese University of Hong KongChina	48.0	11.5%	1.2×	9	+108.9%
51	Temple University Health SystemUnited States	43.4	8.5%	24.5×	12	+28.0%
52	Ulsan CollegeSouth Korea	43.1	15.1%	12.5×	12	-11.2%
53	Hebei Medical UniversityChina	43.0	5.5%	10.2×	36	+106.5%
54	All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia	42.8	3.1%	5.7×	65	+55.6%
55	Shandong First Medical UniversityChina	40.2	8.6%	7.6×	22	+36.4%
56	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom	40.0	10.4%	1.9×	19	-27.2%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Breast Cancer Treatment Studies, country by country

Is Breast Cancer Treatment Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Breast Cancer Treatment Studies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Breast Cancer Treatment Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.047% in 2024.

Fractional works of Breast Cancer Treatment Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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Which countries lead Breast Cancer Treatment Studies research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Breast Cancer Treatment Studies research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Breast Cancer Treatment Studies?

What are the most cited papers in Breast Cancer Treatment Studies?

Where is Breast Cancer Treatment Studies research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Breast Cancer Treatment Studies?

Is Breast Cancer Treatment Studies research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Questions people ask

Which institutions lead breast cancer research?

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