Ratosa Ivica, Bavdaz Mojca, Bonca Petra Dosenovic, Logar Helena Barbara Zobec, Perhavec Andraz, Skubic Marjeta, Vörös Katja, Mihor Ana, Zadnik Vesna, Redek Tjasa
1Division of Radiotherapy, Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Radiol Oncol. 2025 Jan 4;59(1):31-42. doi: 10.2478/raon-2025-0002. eCollection 2025 Mar 1.
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers, increasingly prevalent also among working-age populations. Regardless of age, breast cancer has significant direct and indirect costs on the individuals, families and society. The aim of the research was to provide a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the financial toxicity of breast cancer, to identify research voids and future research challenges.
The systematic mapping of literature relied on a multi-method approach, combining bibliometric methods with a standard review/discussion of most important contributions. The analysis employed Bibliometrics in R and VosViewer.
The results highlighted the key authors, journals and research topics in the investigation of the financial toxicity of cancer and stressed the concentration of work around several authors and journals.
The results also revealed a lack of a comprehensive approach in the study of financial toxicity, as the literature often focuses on one or few selected aspects of financial toxicity. In addition, geographic coverage is uneven and differences in the healthcare systems represent a challenge to straightforward comparisons.
乳腺癌是最常见的癌症之一，在工作年龄人群中也日益普遍。无论年龄大小，乳腺癌都会给个人、家庭和社会带来重大的直接和间接成本。该研究的目的是对乳腺癌的经济毒性进行全面的文献计量分析，以识别研究空白和未来的研究挑战。
文献的系统映射依赖于一种多方法途径，将文献计量方法与对最重要贡献的标准综述/讨论相结合。分析使用了R语言中的文献计量学和VosViewer。
结果突出了癌症经济毒性研究中的关键作者、期刊和研究主题，并强调了围绕几位作者和期刊的工作集中情况。
结果还揭示了在经济毒性研究中缺乏一种全面的方法，因为文献往往侧重于经济毒性的一个或几个选定方面。此外，地理覆盖范围不均衡，医疗保健系统的差异对直接比较构成了挑战。
