Total number of global cancer research papers in 2009 compared with 2019 sexed by males (M) and females (F), and authors of unknown sex (U), in first and last author positions
| Year | First author position | Last author position | ||||||||
| M | F | U | % Sexed | F % | M | F | U | % Sexed | F% | |
| 2009 | 36 963 | 21 941 | 7898 | 88.2 | 37.2 | 45 980 | 13 992 | 6830 | 89.8 | 23.3 |
| 2019 | 73 831 | 52 601 | 17 886 | 87.6 | 41.6 | 90 917 | 37 836 | 15 565 | 89.2 | 29.4 |
F% is percentage of females among sexed authors.