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. 2008 Jul 29;99(4):569–576. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604531

Table 5. Sectoral analysis of numbers (N) and percent of different funding bodies acknowledged on UK and US papers cited in BBC cancer research stories with, for comparison, UK oncology papers from 2000–2001 (ONC, n=5385) and US oncology papers from 2003 (ONC, n=472).

  UK, N UK, % ONC % US, N US, % ONC %
All papers 594 100 100 647 100.0 100
Government 170 28.6 18.3 396 61.2 57.6
Private non-profit 344 57.9 43.3 288 44.5 36.7
Industry 95 16.0 14.3 122 18.9 11.7
International 48 8.1 5.6 20 3.1 1.1
Other 132 22.2 22.8 145 22.4 n.a.
None 126 21.2 35.1 102 15.8 22.0