Palliative Care in Breast Cancer

We searched all publications related to palliative care and breast cancer from 2012 to 2022 in the Web of Science core database, including Science Citation Index-EXPANDED, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (all 2003 to present); Emerging Sources Citation Index (2017 to present); Current Chemical Reactions-EXPANDED (1985 to present); and Index Chemicus (1993 to present). The Medical Subject Headings and entry terms “palliative care” and “breast cancer” were used as search strategies. Retrieval queries included the following: #1, ALL=(“Palliative Care”) OR ALL=(“Palliative Treatment*”) OR ALL=(“Palliative Therapy”) OR ALL=(“Palliative Supportive Care”) OR ALL=(“Palliative Surgery”); #2, ALL=(“breast cancer”) OR ALL=(“Breast Neoplasm”) OR ALL=(“Breast Tumor*”) OR ALL=(“Mammary Cancer*”) OR ALL=(“Malignant Neoplasm of Breast”) OR ALL=(“Breast Malignant Neoplasm*”) OR ALL=(“Breast Malignant Tumor*”) OR ALL=(“Mammary Carcinoma, Human”) OR ALL=(“Mammary Neoplasms, Human”) OR ALL=(“Breast Carcinoma*”); “#3”, “#1”, and “#2”. Also, the timespan of these publications was then filtered from 2012 to 2022. The search was conducted on July 10, 2022 and yielded 1654 articles. We set the document type to article or review article, restricted the language to English, and excluded one retracted publication. This yielded 1529 publications including 1134 articles (74.17%) and 395 review articles (25.83%); meanwhile, 125 publications were excluded including 69 non-English documents, 38 early access articles, 16 proceedings papers, 1 book chapter, and 1 retracted publication.