Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics

Table 1 Size of the abstract sets returned from queries of breast and lung cancer

From: Semi-automated literature mining to identify putative biomarkers of disease from multiple biofluids

Breast cancer			Lung cancer
Biofluid	Positives	Negatives	Biofluid	Positives	Negatives
Bile	360	40,250	Bile	328	40,290
Blood	18,939	1,540,721	Blood	15,710	1,522,046
Breastmilk	1,047	17,874	Breastmilk	99	18,834
CSF	252	42,711	CSF	298	42,676
Mucus	116	25,122	Mucus	1,445	23,801
Plasma	4,327	342,415	Plasma	3,227	343,678
Saliva	149	22,694	Saliva	86	22,770
Semen	40	12,956	Semen	9	12,989
Serum	7,410	415,218	Serum	6,029	412,897
SF	18	7,699	SF	18	7,671
Stool	123	37,574	Stool	90	37,619
Sweat	321	11,079	Sweat	88	11,673
Tears	40	11,651	Tears	10	11,673
Urine	1,154	125,462	Urine	918	86,776
Total	34,296	2,653,396	Total	28,355	2,595,034

CSF = cerebrospinal fluid; SF = synovial fluid.

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