FAST BREAKING PAPERS

Essential Science IndicatorsSM from Thomson Reuters lists highly cited papers in 22 broad fields of science. These papers comprise the top 1% of papers in each field and each year. The lists are updated every two months to reflect their current citation counts and also include new papers that enter the top percentile.ScienceWatch.com here identifies a subset of these papers having the largest percentage increase in citations in their respective fields from one bimonthly update to the next. We call these "fast breaking...

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Cough medicine could help doctors identify how breast cancer patients metabolize tamoxifen

The test needs to be refined and improved so that fewer blood samples are required and it is easier to use; it also needs to be tested in another group of patients. If this proves to be successful, then the researchers will have to develop a dosing strategy and test it in a phase III trial in order to compare it with current practice.   By ECCO-the European CanCer Organisation,[RxPG] Cough medicine could be used as way of predicting how well individual patients metabolise tamoxifen used in the treatment of their breast cancer, according to new research presented at the 22nd EORTC-NCI-AACR [1] Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Berlin today (Friday). The findings...

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I-SPY 2 STUDY SPEEDS UP TREATMENT FOR BREAST CANCER

The trial data for the first time will be public, which means that breast cancer researchers across the country will have unprecedented information about what the tumors look like before, during and after treatment, plus long-term outcomes. Usually, the drug developer owns the data and keeps it private.   By University of Colorado Denver, [RxPG] AURORA, Colo. (Nov. 16, 2010) A clinical trial that aims to speed up the study of new treatments for certain subtypes of breast cancer now has a designated study site at the Diane O'Connor Thompson Breast Center at the University of Colorado Hospital. This study, called I-SPY 2, (Investigation of Serial Studies to Predict Your...

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SCIENCE IN TAIWAN

Taiwan’s world share of science and social-science papers over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 21 fields in the Thomson Reuters database. Also, Taiwan’s relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms. Field% papers fr. TiawanImpact vs. world Engineering4.49-7 Computer Science4.12-16 Materials Science2.99-7 Physics2.55-19 Economics & Business2.28-43 Taiwan's overall percent share, all fields: 1.93 Pharmacology & Toxicology1.90-19 Chemistry1.77-11 Clinical Medicine1.62-30 Mathematics1.49-11 Agricultural Sciences1.35+15 Biology & Biochemistry1.31-32 Geosciences1.27-13 Environment/Ecology1.27-23 Microbiology1.16-31 Social...

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