Cancer Insight

About Cancer Insight

An independent, educational explorer of cancer research that keeps the original evidence visible.

Why it exists

Searching for cancer research usually returns a list of papers and little sense of the literature around them: how much research exists, what kinds of studies it contains, or how a number on a website was produced. Cancer Insight is built to answer those questions while keeping every source one click away.

Principles

  • Evidence stays visible. Papers link to PubMed, PubMed Central and DOI pages; images link to their source and licence.
  • Every count is reproducible. Each number is a PubMed search, and its link runs the same query.
  • Description, not judgement. Cancer Insight never ranks treatments and never presents paper counts as evidence of effectiveness.
  • Limits are stated where results appear, not only in a policy page.

What you can do

  • Explore a cancer type: recent papers with evidence types, structured abstracts and retraction warnings; the size and study-design mix of its PubMed literature; treatment literature and comparisons; scientific images.
  • Build a Research Gap Atlas to see which designs and themes are less represented than across oncology overall, or see every cancer at once on the cancer map.
  • See a cancer’s registered clinical trials from ClinicalTrials.gov: where they stand, their phases, sponsors and countries, and how many completed trials have no results posted.
  • Compare each cancer’s share of research with its share of deaths and new cases worldwide on research vs burden.
  • Open a cancer profile that brings these together, including retracted papers.
  • Save papers in your browser and export them as CSV, RIS citations or a PDF report.
  • Use the open data addresses to check or reuse any figure.
  • Use the whole site in Arabic.

What it is not

Cancer Insight is not a medical service. It does not diagnose, recommend treatments or replace a clinician, and research counts must not be used to choose a treatment.

Sources and independence

Research data comes from NCBI PubMed and PubMed Central, ClinicalTrials.gov, the Cure Cancer With AI research API and Wikimedia Commons; burden figures come from GLOBOCAN 2024 (International Agency for Research on Cancer). Cancer Insight is independent and is not affiliated with these organisations. The methodology documents every rule and query.

Contact

Corrections, broken links and questions are welcome on the contact page.