OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cancer Causes & Control is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Revisiting time to translation: implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) in cancer control	83
Risk factors for early-onset colorectal cancer: a population-based case–control study in Ontario, Canada	39
Predictors of five-year survival among patients with hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States: an analysis of SEER-Medicare	32
The social vulnerability index as a risk stratification tool for health disparity research in cancer patients: a scoping review	26
Statins to mitigate cardiotoxicity in cancer patients treated with anthracyclines and/or trastuzumab: a systematic review and meta-analysis	25
Adiposity and cancer survival: a systematic review and meta-analysis	24
Trends in Esophageal Cancer Mortality and Stage at Diagnosis by Race and Ethnicity in the United States	23
The role of calcium and vitamin D dietary intake on risk of colorectal cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis of case–control studies	23
Salt intake and gastric cancer: a pooled analysis within the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project	23
Adherence to annual lung cancer screening with low-dose CT scan in a diverse population	22
Economic burden of skin cancer treatment in the USA: an analysis of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data, 2012–2018	21
Association of oral microbiota with lung cancer risk in a low-income population in the Southeastern USA	21
Perceptions of and barriers to cancer screening by the sexual and gender minority community: a glimpse into the health care disparity	20
Trends in oral contraceptive and intrauterine device use among reproductive-aged women in the US from 1999 to 2017	20
A pilot study of a culturally-appropriate, educational intervention to increase participation in cancer clinical trials among African Americans and Latinos	18
Incidence rates and contemporary trends in primary urethral cancer	18
Cancer disparities in the context of rurality: risk factors and screening across various U.S. rural classification codes	18
US hysterectomy prevalence by age, race and ethnicity from BRFSS and NHIS: implications for analyses of cervical and uterine cancer rates	18
The impact of social and environmental factors on cancer biology in Black Americans	18
Prostate cancer survival in sub-Saharan Africa by age, stage at diagnosis, and human development index: a population-based registry study	18
The current burden of non-melanoma skin cancer attributable to ultraviolet radiation and related risk behaviours in Canada	16
Changing incidence and projections of thyroid cancer in mainland China, 1983–2032: evidence from Cancer Incidence in Five Continents	15
Differences in survival among multiple myeloma patients in the United States SEER population by neighborhood socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity	15
Physical activity for cancer patients during COVID-19 pandemic: a call to action	15
Racial disparities in routine health checkup and adherence to cancer screening guidelines among women in the United States of America	15

Decreased public pursuit of cancer-related information during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	15
What mediates the racial/ethnic disparity in psychosocial stress among breast cancer patients?	14
Dietary quality using four dietary indices and lung cancer risk: the Golestan Cohort Study (GCS)	14
The relationship between cancer fatalism and education	14
Mammographic density as an image-based biomarker of therapy response in neoadjuvant-treated breast cancer patients	14
The Alberta moving beyond breast cancer (AMBER) cohort study: baseline description of the full cohort	13
Early-life cancer, infertility, and risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes: a registry linkage study in Massachusetts	13
Dietary inflammatory index and risk of colorectal adenoma: effect measure modification by race, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, cigarette smoking and body mass index?	13
Bladder cancer stage and mortality: urban vs. rural residency	13
Socioeconomic inequalities in colorectal cancer incidence in Canada: trends over two decades	13
Applying Mendelian randomization to appraise causality in relationships between nutrition and cancer	12
Overall and central obesity and prostate cancer risk in African men	12
Symposium report: breast cancer in India—trends, environmental exposures and clinical implications	12
The association of skipping breakfast with cancer-related and all-cause mortality in a national cohort of United States adults	12
Healthy lifestyle index and risk of pancreatic cancer in the Women’s Health Initiative	12
Be Well Communities™: mobilizing communities to promote wellness and stop cancer before it starts	12
The hidden curve behind COVID-19 outbreak: the impact of delay in treatment initiation in cancer patients and how to mitigate the additional risk of dying—the head and neck cancer model	11
Cervical cancer screening among sexual minority women: findings from a national survey	11
A scoping review of risk-stratified bowel screening: current evidence, future directions	11
Pre-diagnosis neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and mortality in individuals who develop lung cancer	10
The influence of the Affordable Care Act-Dependent Care Expansion on insurance coverage among young cancer survivors in California: an updated analysis	10
Cancer deaths attributable to cigarette smoking in 152 U.S. metropolitan or micropolitan statistical areas, 2013–2017	10
Trends in thyroid cancer burden in Taiwan over two decades	10
Effectiveness of diet and physical activity interventions amongst adults attending colorectal and breast cancer screening: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Increasing prevalence of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer in a managed care population in the United States	9
Estimating the rate of overdiagnosis with prostate cancer screening: evidence from the Finnish component of the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer	9
Medication use and risk of proximal colon cancer: a systematic review of prospective studies with narrative synthesis and meta-analysis	9
Impact of race on outcomes in intermediate-risk acute myeloid leukemia	9
Lifestyle factors and lung cancer risk among never smokers in the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health (CanPath)	9
Gut microbiome, body weight, and mammographic breast density in healthy postmenopausal women	9
Factors associated with changes in exercise behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Association between cytoreductive nephrectomy and survival among patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma receiving modern therapies: a systematic review and meta-analysis examining effect modifi	9
Periodontal disease as a risk factor for sporadic colorectal cancer: results from COLDENT study	9
Consumption of processed and ultra-processed foods by patients with stomach adenocarcinoma: a multicentric case–control study in the Amazon and southeast regions of Brazil	9
The influence of multi-morbidities on colorectal cancer screening recommendations and completion	9
Correlates of non-adherence to breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening among screen-eligible women: a population-based cohort study in Ontario, Canada	9
Men’s experiences of radiotherapy treatment for localized prostate cancer and its long-term treatment side effects: a longitudinal qualitative study	8
Coffee consumption and risk of renal cancer: a meta-analysis of cohort evidence	8
Dietary patterns related to total mortality and cancer mortality in the United States	8
Disparities in cause-specific mortality by race and sex among bladder cancer patients from the SEER database	8
Birth characteristics and childhood leukemia in Switzerland: a register-based case–control study	8
Survival disparities among recently diagnosed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cancer patients in Australia remain	8
Financial hardship is associated with lower uptake of colorectal, breast, and cervical cancer screenings	8
Principles to operationalize equity in cancer research and health outcomes: lessons learned from the cancer prevention and control research network	8
Cervical cancer in Ethiopia: a review of the literature	8
Cross sectional association between cytomegalovirus seropositivity, inflammation and cognitive impairment in elderly cancer survivors	8
Joint associations of physical activity and body mass index with the risk of established excess body fatness-related cancers among postmenopausal women	8
Methods and implementation of a Hospital-Based Cancer Registry in a major city in a low-to middle-income country: the case of Cali, Colombia	8
Are exposure-disease relationships assessed in cohorts of health professionals generalizable?: a comparative analysis based on WCRF/AICR systematic literature reviews	8
Body mass index as an independent prognostic factor in glioblastoma	8

Risk factors for esophageal cancer in a high-incidence area of Malawi	8
Cannabis use is associated with patient and clinical factors in a population-based sample of colorectal cancer survivors	8
Geographic distribution of racial differences in mortality in muscle-invasive bladder cancer patients: an opportunity for improvement	8
Role of integrative medicine in the continuum of care of breast cancer patients in the Indian context	8
Racial and ethnic differences in tumor characteristics among endometrial cancer patients in an equal-access healthcare population	7
Trends in breast and prostate cancer screening and diagnostic procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic in central Massachusetts	7
Temporal trends, tumor characteristics and stage-specific survival in penile non-squamous cell carcinoma vs. squamous cell carcinoma	7
Disparities in HPV knowledge by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic position: Trusted sources for the dissemination of HPV information	7
Racial and geographic disparities in stage-specific incidence and mortality in the colorectal cancer hotspot region of eastern North Carolina, 2008–2016	7
Incidence of penile intraepithelial neoplasia and incidence and survival of penile cancer in Denmark, 1997 to 2018	7
Risk of breast cancer in relation to dietary intake of selenium and serum selenium as a marker of dietary intake: a prospective cohort study within The Malmö Diet and Cancer Study	7
Eye color and the risk of skin cancer	7
Patterns of overall mortality by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status in insured cancer patients in Southern California	7
Patterns of chronic disease management and health outcomes in a population-based cohort of Black women with breast cancer	7
Sex differences in associations between birth characteristics and childhood cancers: a five-state registry-linkage study	7
Food security status and breast cancer screening among women in the United States: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study and Health Care and Nutrition Study	7
On recent meta-analyses of exposure to glyphosate and risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in humans	7
Reproductive factors and risk of breast cancer in black South African women	7
Physical activity from menarche-to-first pregnancy and risk of breast cancer: the California teachers study	6
Examining the etiology of early-onset breast cancer in the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health (CanPath)	6
Does testosterone mediate the relationship between vitamin D and prostate cancer progression? A systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Identifying research practices toward achieving health equity principles within the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network	6
The role of testosterone replacement therapy and statin use, and their combination, in prostate cancer	6
Ethnicity, socioeconomic status, income inequality, and colorectal cancer outcomes: evidence from the 4C2 collaboration	6
Racial/ethnic differences in average CA125 and CA15.3 values and its correlates among postmenopausal women in the USA	6
Quantifying cancer risk from exposures to medical imaging in the Risk of Pediatric and Adolescent Cancer Associated with Medical Imaging (RIC) Study: research methods and cohort profile	6
The incidence of skin melanoma in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain) is lower than expected in Southern Europe despite high-risk environmental conditions: an island-wide cross-sectional study	6
Impact of an educational tool on young women’s knowledge of cervical cancer screening recommendations	6
Type 2 Diabetes and all-cause mortality among Spanish women with breast cancer	6
The risk of diffuse-type gastric cancer following diagnosis with gastric precancerous lesions: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Prostate cancer knowledge gaps among community stakeholders in rural Nigeria: implications for seeking screening	6
HPV vaccination coverage and factors among American Indians in Cherokee Nation	6
Long-term residential exposure to air pollution and Hodgkin lymphoma risk among adults in Denmark: a population-based case–control study	6
Anti-hypertensive medications and risk of colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Racial and ethnic variation in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic test results among individuals referred for genetic counseling at a large urban comprehensive cancer center	6
Antihypertensive medications and risks of recurrence and mortality in luminal, triple-negative, and HER2-overexpressing breast cancer	6
Diversity and transparency in gynecologic oncology clinical trials	6
Social support and cervical cancer screening among sub-Saharan African immigrant (SAI) women	6
Development of a text message-based intervention for follow-up colposcopy among predominately underserved Black and Hispanic/Latinx women	6
Survival of epithelial ovarian cancer in Black women: a society to cell approach in the African American cancer epidemiology study (AACES)	6
Cancer clinical trials in the Philippines	6
Changes in colorectal cancer knowledge and screening intention among Ohio African American and Appalachian participants: The screen to save initiative	6
Geographic clustering of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma in New Jersey: an exploratory analysis using residential histories	6
Using the health belief model to assess racial/ethnic disparities in cancer-related behaviors in an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center catchment area	5
Association between weight cycling and risk of kidney cancer: a prospective cohort study and meta-analysis of observational studies	5
Risk of colorectal adenocarcinoma in men receiving androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer; a nationwide cohort study	5
Sexual dysfunction among early-onset colorectal cancer survivors: Sex-specific correlates of sexual health discussions between patients and providers	5
Beliefs and knowledge related to human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among African Americans and African immigrants young adults	5
Aspirin use and prostate tumor angiogenesis	5
Identifying the effective behaviour change techniques in nutrition and physical activity interventions for the treatment of overweight/obesity in post-treatment breast cancer survivors: a systematic r	5
Disparities in clinical and demographic characteristics among Asian/Pacific Islander and Non-Hispanic White newly diagnosed lung cancer patients	5
Prevalence of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine (TCAM) among adult cancer patients in Malawi	5
Challenges related to human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake in Minnesota: clinician and stakeholder perspectives	5
Smoking and pancreatic cancer: a sex-specific analysis in the Multiethnic Cohort study	5
HPV vaccination uptake among foreign-born Blacks in the US: insights from the National Health Interview Survey 2013–2017	5
Hospitalization as an opportunity to engage underserved individuals in shared decision-making for lung cancer screening: results from two randomized pilot trials	5
Stage of colorectal cancer diagnosis for immigrants: a population-based retrospective cohort study in Ontario, Canada	5
Leading cancers contributing to educational disparities in cancer mortality in the US, 2017	5
Metastatic relapse of stage I–III breast cancer in New Zealand	5
Protective role of melatonin in breast cancer: what we can learn from women with blindness	5
Effects of socioeconomic status on cancer patient survival: counterfactual event-based mediation analysis	5
Joanne Knight Breast Health Cohort at Siteman Cancer Center	5
Improving cervical cancer screening rates: a scoping review of resources and interventions	5
Family history of prostate cancer and prostate tumor aggressiveness in black and non-black men;results from an equal access biopsy study	5
Substituting bouts of sedentary behavior with physical activity: adopting positive lifestyle choices in people with a history of cancer	5
Improved renal cancer prognosis among users of drugs targeting renin-angiotensin system	5
Examination of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening in military and civilian men: analysis of the 2018 behavioral risk factor surveillance system	5
Neighborhood environment and socioeconomic inequalities in cancer admissions: a prospective study using UK Biobank and linked hospital records	5
Colorectal cancer screening disparities in Asian Americans: the influences of patient-provider communication and social media use	5
Barriers and facilitators of Hispanic/Latino parents caregiving for a childhood cancer survivor: a qualitative study	5
Circulating lipids and glioma risk: results from the UK Biobank, Nurses’ Health Study, and Health Professionals Follow-Up Study	5