The recognition that cancer is not a single entity, rather that different cancers have different causes and trajectories, has been a key development in the scientific understanding of cancer. However, little is known about the British public's awareness of differences between cancers. This study examined differences in perceived survivability for three common cancers with widely disparate survival rates (breast, colorectal and lung).
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 March 2013.
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#19,186,260
of 27,830,424 outputs
Outputs from British Journal of Cancer
#10,381
of 11,666 outputs
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#123,707
of 182,233 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Journal of Cancer
#71
of 87 outputs
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