Does the last 20 years paradigm of clinical research using volatile organic compounds to non-invasively diagnose cancer need to change? Challenges and future direction

Purpose Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have shown great potential as novel biomarkers for cancer detection; however, comprehensive quantitative analysis is lacking. In this study, we performed a bibliometric analysis of non-invasive cancer diagnosis using VOCs to better characterise international trends and to predict future hotspots in this field, and then we focussed on human studies to analyse clinical characteristics for presenting the current controversies and future perspectives of further clinical work. Methods Publications, from 2002 to 2022, were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection database. CiteSpace and VOSviewer were used to generate network maps and identify the annual publications, top countries, authors, institutions, journals, references, and keywords. Then, we further screened clinical trials, and the key information was extracted into Microsoft Excel for further systematical analysis. Results Six hundred and forty-one articles were identified to evaluate research trends, of which 301 clinical trials were selected for further systematical analysis. Overall, the annual publications in this area increased, with an overall upward trend, while the quality of clinical research remains remarkably uneven. Conclusion The study of non-invasive cancer diagnosis using VOCs would continue to be an active field. However, without stringent clinical design criteria, most suitable acquisition and analysis devices and statistical approaches, a list of exclusive, specific, reliable and reproducible VOCs to identify a disease and these VOCs appearing in a breath at detectable levels at early stage disease, the clinical utility of VOC tests will be difficult to have any breakthroughs..

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:149

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Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology - 149(2023), 12 vom: 05. Juni, Seite 10377-10386

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tan, Shi-Yan [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Qiong [VerfasserIn]
Li, Fang [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Hua [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Xiao-Yun [VerfasserIn]
Dong, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Qiao-Ling [VerfasserIn]
You, Feng-Ming [VerfasserIn]
Fu, Xi [VerfasserIn]
Ren, Yi-Feng [VerfasserIn]

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Bibliometric
Cancer diagnosis
Clinical studies
Non-invasive technique
Systematic review
Volatile organic compounds

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10.1007/s00432-023-04940-7

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OLC2144987858