Barw Barw Medical Journal 2960-1959 2023 05 20 Cancer Publications in One Year (2022): A Cross-Sectional Study 10.58742/bmj.v1i2.30 eng Fenk Mariwan Mohemed College of Medicine, University of Sulaimani, Madam Mitterrand Street, Sulaimani, Kurdistan, Iraq. fenk.mohemed@gmail.com Binaiy Nasih Fatih College of Medicine, University of Sulaimani, Madam Mitterrand Street, Sulaimani, Kurdistan, Iraq. binaiy.fatih@gmail.com Abdullah Abdulrahman Qadir College of Medicine, University of Sulaimani, Madam Mitterrand Street, Sulaimani, Kurdistan, Iraq. abdullahabdulrahman414@gmail.com Shalaw H. Abdalla Hiwa Cancer Hospital, Sulaimani Directorate of Health, Sulaimani, Kurdistan, Iraq.. shalaw.abdalla@gmail.com Zana H. Mahmood Smart Health Tower, Madam Mitterrand Street, Sulaimani, Kurdistan, Iraq. zana14@gmail.com 2023 04 12 Abstract Introduction Cancer is the uncontrollable and abnormal division of cells in a specific part of the body, which can spread to adjacent areas. The number of scientific publications on cancer has increased significantly over the past few decades. The objective of the current study is to evaluate scientific publications on cancer in 2022. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted on published papers on cancer in 2022. The data were collected online from the Google Scholar search engine and recorded in Microsoft Excel 2010. The extracted data were calculated and thoroughly re-evaluated, and they were presented as frequencies and percentages. Results A total of 167,129 medical studies on cancer in various body organs were collected for the study, with 37,500 studies specifically focused on breast cancer. This represented the highest number of studies in 2022, while only 4 articles were specific to glottis cancer, marking the lowest number in that year. Conclusion The existence of a gap between the incidence rate of each cancer type and scientific literature may lead to a defect in our understanding of the nature of the diseases.