🔍 OncoTwitter Project Overview

We are maintaining a daily-updated public database that identifies articles on specific cancer types published in selected high-impact medical journals. Clinically relevant articles are summarized on Twitter, making it easier to stay informed. The project currently covers 7 major cancer types.

❓ Why This Matters

Keeping up with cancer research is overwhelming. Take breast cancer, for example - important papers are scattered across journals of various fields, including oncology, radiation, surgery, general medicine, and biology. With hundreds of journals involved, it’s nearly impossible to track everything.

In our internal survey:

⚙️ Our Approach

We use a mix of automation and AI to solve this:

  1. Daily PubMed Crawling using broad search terms.
  2. AI-Based Screening using LLMs to:
    • Identify oncology articles (100% sensitivity, 97% specificity)
    • Classify by cancer type (98% concordance with human tagging) and study design
  3. Articles are categorized and uploaded to a public spreadsheet.

📂 Access the Spreadsheets:

🐦 Twitter Summaries

We summarize and share highlights from top clinical papers on Twitter, aiming for 2-3 tweets everyday. Each account is managed by a passionate team member:

📲 Follow your favorite cancer type to stay sharp on rounds, in clinic, or in the lab.

💡 Benefits

📬 Questions or Feedback?

Feel free to reach out to us at: info@pubxel.org