The proportion of cancer-related entries in PubMed has increased considerably; Is cancer truly "the Emperor of All Maladies"?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Reyes Aldasoro, Constantino Carlos ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; DIABETES MELLITUS; FUNDING; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALARIA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MATHEMATICS; MEDLINE; SOFTWARE; TUBERCULOSIS; NEOPLASM; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DATA MINING; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; MALARIA; NEOPLASMS; PUBMED; SERIAL PUBLICATIONS; STROKE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 85015189541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173671     Document Type: Article

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