Scientific journal articles that identify a stage of cancer continuum
| Cancer type | Prevention and control articles (%) | Prevention and control articles with 1+media mentions (%) | Diagnosis articles | Diagnosis articles with 1+media mentions (%) | Therapy articles | Therapy articles with 1+media mentions (%) |
| Breast | 55 (4.3) | 21 (38.2) | 147 (11.4) | 30 (20.4) | 111 (8.6) | 24 (21.6) |
| Lung | 25 (4.0) | 4 (16.0) | 68 (10.8) | 10 (14.7) | 70 (11.1) | 12 (17.1) |
| Colon and rectal | 53 (9.9) | 19 (35.8) | 123 (23.0) | 27 (22.0) | 45 (8.4) | 7 (15.6) |
| Leukaemia | 18 (3.3) | 3 (16.7%) | 52 (9.6) | 11 (21.2) | 87 (16.0) | 16 (18.4) |
| Liver | 15 (5.0) | 2 (13.3) | 28 (9.3) | 1 (3.6) | 35 (11.6) | 6 (17.1) |
| Prostate | 25 (4.3) | 8 (32.0) | 68 (11.6) | 18 (26.5) | 53 (9.0) | 9 (17.0) |
| Melanoma | 11 (3.6) | 5 (45.5) | 24 (7.9) | 6 (25.0) | 44 (14.6) | 11 (25.0) |
| Pancreatic | 11 (3.6) | 2 (18.2) | 28 (9.1) | 3 (10.7) | 36 (11.7) | 4 (11.1) |
| Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma | 2 (1.2) | 0 (0.0) | 21 (12.4) | 3 (14.3) | 31 (18.2) | 8 (25.8) |
| Kidney | 1 (0.9) | 0 (0.0) | 12 (11.3) | 0 (0.0) | 9 (8.5) | 2 (22.2) |
| Thyroid | 1 (1.4) | 0 (0.0) | 7 (9.9) | 0 (0.0) | 6 (8.5) | 3 (50.0) |
| Urinary/bladder | 3 (4.4) | 1 (33.3) | 12 (17.6) | 1 (8.3) | 13 (19.1) | 0 (0.0) |
| Endometrial | 3 (3.9) | 1 (33.3) | 5 (6.5) | 0 (0.0) | 8 (10.4) | (0.0) |
| Total 13 common cancer types (4687)* | 206 (4.4) | 550 (11.7) | 502 (10.7) | |||
| Total (11 436)* | 519 (4.5) | 1000 (8.7) | 1198 (10.5) |
*Articles may address more than one stage in the cancer continuum. Therefore, these two totals do not reflect unique articles.