A study has examined the level of research being performed on the intersection between cancer and mental health. Using the sub-field filters 'mental disorder' and 'cancer' to retrieve research papers from the Web of Science between 2002 and 2011, 1,463 papers were identified on this topic, representing 0.26% of cancer research and 0.51% of mental health research. These results highlight a transdisciplinary gap in health-care research that should be addressed.
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Purushotham, A. et al. Cancer and mental health—a clinical and research unmet need. Ann. Oncol. 10.1093/annonc/mdt214
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Lack of research on link between cancer and mental health. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 10, 486 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrclinonc.2013.129
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nrclinonc.2013.129