A Review of Scientific Papers About Head and Neck Cancers

Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology

Severo De Paoli¹  Adenilson De Souza Da Fonseca¹  Flávia De Paoli¹  Mauro Geller¹  Giuseppe Antonio Presta²  Sebastião David Santos-filho²  Mário Bernardo-filho² 

[1] ,Centro Universitário Serra dos ÓrgãosTeresópolis RJ ,Brasil

关键词: Scientific interest;    PubMed;    cancer;    surgery;    radiotherapy;    chemotherapy;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1516-89132008000700011

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Head and neck cancer is one of the 10 most frequent cancers worldwide, with an estimated 500000 new cases diagnosed annually. Treatment of head and neck cancers require a multidisciplinary approach due their complexity and the functional and esthetic alterations that cancer can cause. The interest of the scientific community in a specific subject can be evaluated by analyzing of the number and the quality of published papers on the topic. The information obtained from PubMed (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez) has been used as a tool in various publications to aid the evaluation of the scientific interest in specific research areas The aim of this work is to evaluate, using PubMed, the scientific interest in studies of head and neck cancer treatments such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery. The searches were performed on PubMed for publications from the period of 1949 to 2008 using the search terms "head and neck cancer" and "surgery" or "radiotherapy" or "chemotherapy". The number of publications per year was determined in each search. The percentage of publications was also calculated for each subject in each year. An interest factor in a subject (IFS) was also determined. The number of publications was higher for surgery than chemotherapy or radiotherapy. The calculated 1964 IFS for surgery was 14.79, 12.74 for radiotherapy, and 19.58 for chemotherapy. The 1995 IFS for surgery was 1.99, 2.09 for radiotherapy, and 2.08 for chemotherapy. The relation obtained for 1995 was maintained in the subsequent years. There are more publications related to surgical treatment for head and neck cancer when compared with radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Moreover, in the recent years there has an increased interest in treatments utilizing chemotherapy, or this associated to radiotherapy.

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