Search. Start with a cancer type like "breast cancer", or a topic like "immunotherapy in melanoma". If you already know the dataset you care about (TCGA, SEER, UK Biobank), switch to By Dataset. From/To sets the publication years, and Max Results is the maximum number of papers to return, newest first (e.g. 100 returns the 100 most recently published papers matching your search).
Search tips.
To focus on a specific patient group, include it in your search, e.g. lung cancer in smokers in women.
You can combine terms with AND, OR and NOT (in capitals), and group them with parentheses, e.g. (tumor OR neoplasm) AND immunotherapy NOT mice.
Wildcards (*) and field tags like [tiab] don't work here.
In By Dataset the same ideas apply: TCGA AND METABRIC finds papers that used both, and TCGA in lung cancer narrows things to one cancer. We also look for the dataset's other names (like The Cancer Genome Atlas), and each paper tells you whether the dataset shows up in its title or abstract, or only in the methods.
Refine. Once results appear, you can narrow them from above the table: by words in the title, author, journal, abstract or PMID, by study type, by species (human or animal), by source, or by open access. "Research papers only" hides publications that are not research articles. In By Dataset you can also filter by where the dataset is named. You can sort by newest or most cited, and pick which columns to show.
Explore. Click Extract on any row to pull out the key information from that study.
Research Statistics. This looks across every paper in your search to show the bigger picture. It takes longer when there are a lot of papers. When it's ready you'll see three tabs:
Summary the most common values found in each type of information we extracted, ranked by how often they appear across the papers.
Paper table every paper on its own row with the details we pulled out.
Gap map pick any two topics (for example, study objective and data type) and see a grid of how many papers cover each pairing. Empty or low cells are combinations few people have studied yet. Click a cell to see its papers.
Export.Export Excel saves the list, plus any details that have been extracted.
Search for a cancer type or any cancer-related topic, or pick one below.
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Enter a dataset name to find cancer papers that used it, e.g. TCGA, SEER, UK Biobank.
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If no year range is selected, it will default to 2000-2026.
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OpenAlex has no study-type tags like PubMed and Europe PMC, so its papers are tagged from the title and abstract wording only. The Study type and “Hide non-research” filters may miss some of them.
Filters combine: papers must match every filter you set. (With several study types ticked, matching any one is enough.)
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