Current status and progress of pancreatic cancer in China

Table 1 Number of pancreatic cancer related publications and clinical trials by country

	China	Japan	South Korea	United Kingdom	United States	Germany
Total No. of publications1	3444	8126	1080	2431	16859	3650
Clinical trials published in PubMed1	84	400	69	153	825	227
Clinical trials ongoing2
Clinicaltrials.gov	45	40	63	82	1105	122
ISRCTN	0	0	0	18	0	14
ICTRP	30	224	29	56	519	92
UMIN-CTR	0	237	0	0	0	0

¹Retrieved from PubMed (Oct 26, 2014) with medical subject heading “pancreatic cancer” in “all fields” and “country” in “all fields” not in “text word”.

²Retrieved from Clinicaltrials.gov, ISRCTN, International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP), and UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR), which are all approved by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (Oct 26, 2014) with search term “pancreatic cancer” and “country”.