A Bibliometric Review of Publications on Oxidative Stress and Chemobrain: 1990-2019.

ABSTRACT: Oxidative stress is considered one of the possible mechanisms behind chemobrain or the cognitive dysfunction persistent after chemotherapy treatment. Breast cancer patients have reported chemobrain symptoms since the 1990s. In this present bibliometric review, we employed the VOSviewer tool to describe the existing landscape on literature concerning oxidative stress, breast cancer chemotherapies, and chemobrain. As of 2019, 8799 papers were listed in the Web of Science database, with more than 900 papers published each year. As expected, terms relating to oxidative stress, mitochondria, breast cancer, and antioxidants have occurred very often in the literature throughout the years. In recent years, there has been an increase in the occurrence of terms related to nanomedicine. Only within t

SUBMITTER: McElroy T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7278845 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature