OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cancer Epidemiology 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The validity of cancer information on death certificates in Norway and the impact of death certificate initiated cases on cancer incidence and survival	61
Racial disparities and treatment trends among young-onset colorectal cancer patients: An analysis of a hospital cancer registry	57
Projections of the future burden of cancer in Australia using Bayesian age-period-cohort models	51
Age-period-cohort effects on incidence trends of childhood leukemia from four population-based cancer registries in Colombia	51
Classic myeloproliferative neoplasms in Singapore: A population-based study on incidence, trends, and survival from 1968 to 2017	44
Low baseline vitamin D levels increase the risk of bone metastases among females with breast cancer − Hospital based cohort study	35
Beyond the urban-rural divide: Exploring spatial variations in breast cancer outcomes in Queensland, Australia	35
Different prognosis of left compared to right breast cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis	34
Hot beverage consumption in the African Esophageal Cancer Corridor: A community-based thermal exposure measurement study across the lifespan	34
Guideline interval: A new time interval in the diagnostic pathway for symptomatic cancer	33
Survival from five common cancers in Georgia, 2015–2019 (CONCORD)	31
Gender differences in adherence to COVID-19 preventative measures and preferred sources of COVID-19 information among adolescents and young adults with cancer	30
Treatment differences and long-term outcomes in adults and children with Ewing sarcoma	29
Ethiopian women's breast cancer self-examination practices and associated factors. A systematic review and meta-analysis	29
The effect of age on the opportunity to receive cancer treatment	28
Cancers attributable to tobacco smoking in Italy in 2020	27
Serum bilirubin subgroups and cancer risk: Insights with a focus on lung cancer	26
Incidence and prognosis of patients with small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors in a population based nationwide study	25
Incidence and relative survival of pancreatic adenocarcinoma and pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms in Germany, 2009–2018. An in-depth analysis of two population-based cancer registries	25
Trends in incidence, mortality and survival of gastric cancer in Xiamen, China from 2011 to 2020: A population-based study	24
Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 and risk of hospital admission and death among infected cancer patients: A population-based study in northern Italy	23
Risk of developing hypothyroidism with the use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors and immune checkpoint inhibitors	23
Associations of dietary fat types (MUFA, PUFA, SFA) and sources (animal, plant) with colorectal cancer risk: A comprehensive systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort stu	22
Glioblastoma in adolescents and young adults: An age-based comparative study from Jordan over a 17-year period	22
Prevalence and determinants of cervical cancer screening in five sub-Saharan African countries: A population-based study	21

Disparities in colorectal cancer time-to-treatment and survival time associated with racial and economic residential segregation surrounding the diagnostic hospital, Georgia 2010–2015	21
Health related quality of life in adult cancer survivors: Importance of social and emotional support	20
Biased effects of pre-diagnostic physical activity on breast cancer survival: Systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Trends in pancreatic cancer incidence, characteristics, and outcomes in Denmark 1980–2019: A nationwide cohort study	17
Title page / Editorial Board	16
A prospective study of pre-diagnostic circulating tryptophan and kynurenine, and the kynurenine/tryptophan ratio and risk of glioma	16
Title page / Editorial Board	16
Chronic metformin intake and gastric cancer: A pooled analysis within the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project	16
Gender differences in tumor characteristics, treatment and survival of colorectal cancer: A population-based study	15
Glycogen synthase kinase-3ß inhibitor use and prostate cancer incidence in Manitoba, Canada: A population-based nested case–control study	15
Aggregation of melanoma tumour site within Western Australian families	15
Polycystic ovary syndrome and risk of differentiated thyroid cancer: A nationwide, register-based cohort study based on Danish health data	15
Breast cancer incidence and stage at diagnosis in the six US-Affiliated Pacific Islands	15
Health locus of control and symptom distress: The mediating role of illness acceptance and symptom severity in acute leukemia patients	15
Residential exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and incident breast cancer among young women in Ontario, Canada	15
Three-year hospital service use trajectories of people diagnosed with cancer: A retrospective cohort study	15
Point of care tobacco treatment sustains during COVID-19, a global pandemic	14
Improving diagnostic strategies for ovarian cancer in Filipino women using ultrasound imaging and a multivariate index assay	14
Childhood leukemia near nuclear sites in Belgium: An ecological study at small geographical level	14
Fasting plasma glucose and alanine aminotransferase on the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma: A nested case-control study	14
Socio-demographic inequalities in stage at diagnosis of lung cancer: A French population-based study	14
A systematic review and meta-analysis of mortality in anal cancer patients by HIV status	13
Pre-existing psychological disorders, diabetes, and pancreatic cancer: A population-based study of 38,952 Finns	13
Predictors of treatment initiation and mapping the cancer diagnostic pathway: A retrospective observational cohort study of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer	13
Corrigendum to “The impact of delayed screening colonoscopies during the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical outcomes” [Cancer Epidemiol. 92 (2024) 102629]	13
Cardiovascular risk factor reporting in immune checkpoint inhibitor trials: A systematic review	13
Side effects of drug-antibody conjugates enfortumab-vedotin and sacituzumab-govitecan in targeted therapy in cancer	13
Geographic variations in cancer incidence and mortality in the State of São Paulo, Brazil 2001–17	12
Introduction of the Danish Lung Nodule Registry: A part of the Danish Lung Cancer Registry	12
Incidence and survival of patients with malignant pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms in Germany, 2009–2021	12
Neuroblastoma in Spain: Linking the national clinical database and epidemiological registries – A study by the Joint Action on Rare Cancers	12
Mortality in patients with cancer and SARS-CoV-2 infection: Results from the Argentinean Network of Hospital-Based Cancer Registries	12
Survival pattern of colorectal cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Prediction model establishment of prognosis factors for distant metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma based on the SEER database	11
Smoking and other health factors in patients with head and neck cancer	11
Trends in cancer mortality in the elderly and oldest old in South America	11
Disparities in survival improvement for U.S. childhood and adolescent cancer between 1995 and 2019: An analysis of population-based data	11
Investigating factors affecting the effectiveness of Gardasil 4, Cervarix, and Gardasil 9 vaccines considering the WHO regions in females: A systematic review	11
REV3L single nucleotide variants lead to increased susceptibility towards non-small cell lung cancer in the population of Jammu and Kashmir	11
Stage-specific risk of colon and rectal cancer in patients presenting with rectal bleeding or change in bowel habit in primary care: A population-based cohort study	11
Prevalence of cancer risk behaviors by county-level persistent poverty	11
Addressing the cervical cancer burden in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas through a multi-component program to improve screening and diagnostic follow-up: A retrospective cohort study	11
Title page / Editorial Board	11
The impact of skin cancer prevention efforts in New South Wales, Australia: Generational trends in melanoma incidence and mortality	10
Lung cancer in nonsmokers- A risk factor analysis	10
Hysterectomy and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer by histologic type, endometriosis, and menopausal hormone therapy	10
Prostate cancer incidence rates, trends, and treatment related to prostate-specific antigen screening recommendations in the United States	10
An intronic variant in the CELF4 gene is associated with risk for colorectal cancer	10
Contents page	10
Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of hepatocellular carcinoma in Xiamen	10

Latin America and the Caribbean Code Against Cancer 1st Edition: 17 cancer prevention recommendations to the public and to policy-makers (World Code Against Cancer Framework)	9
The association between marital status and treatment initiation in lung cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies	9
Whole-population trends in pathology-confirmed cancer incidence in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A retrospective observational study	9
Colorectal cancer incidence in a multi-ethnic population: Age-period-cohort analysis of trends in Singapore	9
Dose-response relationship between fat distribution and liver cancer incidence: A prospective cohort study in Chinese men	9
Disease burden of cancers attributable to high fasting plasma glucose from 1990 to 2021 and projections until 2031 in China	9
Temporal trends and factors associated with the cancer diagnosed at stage IV in patients included in the integrated hospital-based cancer registry system in Brazil in two decades	9
Pre-diagnostic circulating p53 autoantibodies and subsequent lung cancer risk in low-income African and European Americans	9
Associations of demographic and perinatal factors with childhood neuroblastoma in Texas, 1995–2011	9
Corrigendum to “Lifetime occupational and recreational physical activity and risk of lymphoma subtypes. Results from the European Epilymph case-control study” [Cancer Epidemiol. 87 (2023) 102495]	9
Corrigendum to “Factors associated with 5- and 10-year survival among a recent cohort of childhood cancer survivors (France, 2000–2015)” [Cancer Epidemiol. 73 (2021) 101950]	9
Cancer mortality 1981–2016 and contribution of specific cancers to current socioeconomic inequalities in all cancer mortality: A population-based study	9
The incidence trends of papillary thyroid carcinoma in Belarus during the post-Chernobyl epoch	9
Association of circulating leptin and adiponectin levels with colorectal cancer risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis of case-control studies	9
Quantification of overdiagnosis in randomised trials of cancer screening: an overview and re-analysis of systematic reviews	9
Innovative use of Australian cancer registry data for early detection of the effects of epidemics and other mass disruptions on cancer incidence	8
Effectiveness of population-based colorectal cancer screening programme in down-staging	8
Use of conditional estimates of effect in cancer epidemiology: An application to lung cancer treatment	8
Cancer incidence in ELSA-Brasil: Making the case for population based cancer registries in Brazil	8
Survival after breast cancer according to participation in organised or opportunistic screening and deprivation	8
Repeat hepatectomy justified in patients with early recurrence of colorectal cancer liver metastases: A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Stomach cancer incidence trends in selected Latin America countries: Age, period, and birth-cohort effects	8
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lung cancer diagnoses and mortality: A nationwide study in France	8
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) mortality in Vietnam war era veterans	8
Appendectomy and the subsequent risk of cancer: A prospective population-based cohort study with long follow-up	8
Coverage rate of opportunistic and organised breast cancer screening in France: Department-level estimation	8
Evaluating the efficacy of artificial intelligence tools for the automation of systematic reviews in cancer research: A systematic review	8
Occurrence of comorbidity with colorectal cancer and variations by age and stage at diagnosis	8
Sleep disturbances among cancer survivors	8
Association between insulin resistance related indicators with the prognosis of patients with colorectal cancer	8
Initial screening of gastric cancer using oral contrast-enhanced trans-abdominal ultrasonography in rural asymptomatic individuals	8
Rural cancer disparities from Oklahoma cancer and vital records registries 2016–2020	8
Genetically inferred birthweight, height, and puberty timing and risk of osteosarcoma	8
Mobile phone use and trends in the incidence of cancers of the parotid and other salivary glands	7
Colorectal cancer among farmers in the AGRICAN cohort study	7
Multiple myeloma, race, insurance and treatment	7
The effects of the first UK lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic on primary-care-recorded cancer and type-2 diabetes mellitus records: A population-based quasi-experimental time series study	7
Diabetes increases the risk of meningioma: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies	7
Risk factors for childhood brain tumours: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies from 1976 to 2022	7
The association of the healthy eating index with risk of colorectal cancers (overall and by subsite) among Canadians	7
Cadmium in biological samples and site-specific cancer risk and mortality: A systematic review of original articles and meta-analyses	7
Regional differences in patient age and prostate cancer characteristics and rates of treatment modalities in favorable and unfavorable intermediate risk prostate cancer across United States SEER regis	7
Are older patients less likely to be treated for pancreatic cancer? A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Reproductive and external hormonal factors and the risk of renal cell cancer in the Netherlands Cohort Study	7
Colorectal cancer incidence trends in Golestan, Iran: An age-period-cohort analysis 2004–2018	7
Clinicopathologic predictors of early relapse in advanced epithelial ovarian cancer: development of prediction models using nationwide data	7
Head and neck cancer mortality trends in Espírito Santo, Brazil	7
Association between antihypertensive medicine use and risk of ovarian cancer in women aged 50 years and older	7
Title page / Editorial Board	7
Multi-state survival models with treatment effects and biomarkers: Simulations for study design assessment	7
Risk factors associated with head and neck cancer in former smokers: A Brazilian multicentric study	7
Survival of primary liver cancer for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Australia	7
Treatment outcomes for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in low-middle income country before minimal residual disease risk stratification	6
Sexual identity differences in biomarkers of tobacco exposure among women in a national sample	6
Lymphoid blood cancers, incidence and survival 2005-2023: A report from the UK’s Haematological Malignancy Research Network	6
The challenge of ovarian cancer care in the oldest old	6
Fair comparisons of cause-specific and relative survival by accounting for the systematic removal of patients from risk-sets	6
Temporal trends in age and stage-specific incidence of colorectal cancer in Saudi Arabia: A registry-based cohort study between 1997 and 2017	6
Six years of colorectal cancer mortality surveillance in the screening population for a risk stratified screening program	6
HPV-driven oropharyngeal cancer burden in Paris and its region (ILE DE FRANCE) from 1981 TO 2021	6
Role of social status and social environment on net survival in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia: A high-resolution population-based study	6
Breast and colorectal cancer recurrence-free survival estimates in the US: Modeling versus active data collection	6
Hospital surgical volume and colorectal cancer survival in Norway: A nationwide cohort study	6
Association of alcohol consumption, betel nut chewing, and cigarette smoking with mortality in patients with head and neck cancer among the Taiwanese population: A nationwide population-based cohort s	6
Factors associated with 5- and 10-year survival among a recent cohort of childhood cancer survivors (France, 2000–2015)	6
Mortality risk among adult americans living with cancer and elevated CRP	6
Risk of carcinomas among children and adolescents with birth defects	6
Examining concordance with the guidelines of the national comprehensive cancer network for the treatment of endometrial cancer in Puerto Rico	6
Predictors and consequences of different pathways to emergency diagnosis of cancer in England: Evidence from linked national audit and cancer registration data	6
Latin American and the Caribbean Code Against Cancer 1st edition: Infections and cancer	6
Relationships between serum iron and liver diseases in nutrition intervention trials: A nested case-control study	6
Lung cancer from suspicion to treatment: An indicator of healthcare access in Turkey	6
Risk factors for breast cancer and their association with molecular subtypes in a population of Northeast Brazil	6
Cancer incidence after an open cut coal mine fire	6
Response to shared decision making in prostate cancer screening: Different perspective of public health physicians and urologists	6
Breast cancer incidence trends in Golestan, Iran: An age-period-cohort analysis by ethnic region, 2004-2018	6
Vitamin D-related genetic variants and prostate cancer risk in Black men	6
Evaluation of disparities in maintaining healthy lifestyle behaviors among female cancer survivors by race/ethnicity and US nativity	6
Understanding current trends and incidence projections of prostate cancer in India: A comprehensive analysis of national and regional data from the global burden of disease study (1990 –2021)	6
Trends in head and neck cancer incidence in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam between 1996 and 2015	6

Understanding gastrointestinal cancer mortality disparities in a racially and geographically diverse population	6
Table of contents	6
Association between metabolic syndrome and participation in colorectal cancer screening in Japan: A retrospective cohort analysis using LIFE study data	6
Prevalence of Human Papilloma Virus in Coquimbo, Chile	6
Latin America and the Caribbean Code Against Cancer 1st edition: Tobacco and nicotine-related products, secondhand smoke, and alcohol and cancer	5
Cigarette smoking and risk of second primary cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Time intervals and previous primary care consultations in the pathway to emergency cancer diagnosis	5
The interaction between systemic inflammatory markers and polygenic risk score in breast cancer risk: A cohort study in the UK Biobank	5
Demographic, clinical, and social characteristics of anal cancer among patients stratified by age (<50 and ≥50 years) in Alabama between 2012 and 2018	5
Liver cancer in Saudi Arabia: A registry-based nationwide descriptive epidemiological and survival analysis	5
Regional variation in cancer survival in Norway	5
Exploring the influence of rural residence on uptake of organized cancer screening – A systematic review of international literature	5
Latin America and the Caribbean Code Against Cancer 1st Edition: Medical interventions including hormone replacement therapy and cancer screening	5
Patterns and temporal trends in the incidence of childhood and adolescence cancer in Cyprus 1998–2017: A population-based study from the Cyprus Paediatric Oncology Registry	5
Changes in the salivary cotinine cut-offs to discriminate smokers and non-smokers before and after Spanish smoke-free legislation	5
Socioeconomic differences in prostate cancer treatment: A systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Sleep problems and risk of cancer incidence and mortality in an older cohort: The Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS)	5
Cancer risk associated with the use of valsartan in Korea: A nationwide cohort study	5
The intersection of race, ethnicity, and urbanicity on treatment paradigms and clinical outcomes for non-malignant primary tumors of the spine	5
Risk of primary haematologic cancers following incident non-metastatic breast cancer: A Danish population-based cohort study	5
Risk of thyroid cancer following hysterectomy	5
A meta-analysis of sunburn and basal cell carcinoma risk	5
Cancers of unknown primary: Survival by histologic type, demographic features, and treatment in the U.S. Military Health System	5
Epidemiology of laryngeal cancer in Brazil: Historical data from 2000 to 2019	5
Survival of patients who had cancer diagnosed through an emergency hospital admission: A retrospective matched case-comparison study in Australia	5
Cancer incidence and spectrum among Uygurs in Hotan District in China	5
Population-based cancer survival in the Golestan province in the northeastern part of Iran 2007–2012	5
Survival rate of colorectal cancer and its relation to the individual and geographical variations in Malaysia, 2013–2018	5
Toxoplasma gondii infection/exposure and the risk of brain tumors: A systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Relative rates of cancers and deaths in Australian communities with PFAS environmental contamination associated with firefighting foams: A cohort study using linked data	5
Racial differences in carcinoma-in-situ and non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer mortality: Accounting for insurance status, black segregation, and neighborhood poverty	5
An update on the current epidemiological status of metastatic neoplasms to the thyroid	5
The association between the incidence of post-menopausal breast cancer and residential greenness	5
The contribution of rural/urban residence to incidence and survival in thymoma and thymic carcinoma, a retrospective cohort study of the SEER 2000–2020 database	5
Esophageal cancer in relation to alcohol drinking and tobacco use among men in Kerala, India – Karunagappally cohort	5
Differences in recording of cancer diagnosis between datasets in England: A population-based study of linked cancer registration, hospital, and primary care data	5
The reduced mortality of malignant melanoma at the population level is mainly attributable to treatment advances for the past decade	5
Employment outcomes among cancer patients in the United States	5
Association between disparities in intergenerational economic mobility and cause-specific mortality among Black and White persons in the United States	5
Trends in pediatric lymphoma incidence by global region, age and sex from 1988-2012	5
Diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer in Denmark during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Is opium use related to the increased risk of oral cavity cancers? A case-control study in Iran	5
Incidence patterns of childhood cancer in two tertiary hospitals in Ghana from 2015 to 2019: A retrospective observational study	5
Prognosis related to treatment plan in patients with biliary tract cancer: A nationwide database study	5
Title page / Editorial Board	5
Gynaecological cancer incidence and mortality trends in a Brazilian State with medium human development index: A 22-year analysis	5
Pre-diagnostic cigarette smoking and risk of second primary cancer: The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study	5
Age and metastasis – How age influences metastatic spread in cancer. Colorectal cancer as a model	5
Systematic review of smoking relapse rates among cancer survivors who quit at the time of cancer diagnosis	5