Analyzing the Landscape of Anti-Cancer Drug Research in Pancreatic Cancer
Yoo Kyung Jeong, Go Eun Heo, Keun Young Kang, Dong Sup Yoon, Min Song · 2015
Due to the importance of anti-cancer drug development, there has been a surge of publications pertinent to the field of pancreatic cancer. Therefore, a need for analysis of drug research trend is recognized to minimize risk of new drug testing and understand the anti-cancer drug research area. The purpose of this paper is to identify the landscape of pancreatic cancer drug research by analyzing the anti-cancer drugs extracted from PubMed records and clinical trials datasets. We conduct drug cluster analysis by using the topic modeling technique and network analysis of drug clusters. Comparison of two distinct datasets, scientific publications vs. clinical trials, gives us a new insight into identifying the different portrait of anti-cancer drug research in pure research and clinical settings.