Cancer Epidemiology

Article	Citations
Childhood cancer: Survival, treatment modalities, late effects and improvements over time	130
Epidemiology of liver metastases	118
Childhood cancer: Estimating regional and global incidence	67
Childhood cancer in India	46
Validity of initial cancer diagnoses in the Diagnosis Procedure Combination data in Japan	38
Cancer mortality among US blacks: Variability between African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, and Africans	37
The outcome of patients with serous papillary peritoneal cancer, fallopian tube cancer, and epithelial ovarian cancer by treatment eras: 27 years data from the SEER registry	37
Childhood cancer mortality trends in Europe, 1990-2017, with focus on geographic differences	31
The world cancer patient population (WCPP): An updated standard for international comparisons of population-based survival	31
Trends in time to cancer diagnosis around the period of changing national guidance on referral of symptomatic patients: A serial cross-sectional study using UK electronic healthcare records from 2006–	30
Ovarian cancer survival by stage, histotype, and pre-diagnostic lifestyle factors, in the prospective UK Million Women Study	27
Racial disparities in clinical presentation, type of intervention, and in-hospital outcomes of patients with metastatic spine disease: An analysis of 145,809 admissions in the United States	27
Global burden of ototoxic hearing loss associated with platinum-based cancer treatment: A systematic review and meta-analysis	25
Trends in breast and cervical cancer in India under National Cancer Registry Programme: An Age-Period-Cohort analysis	25
The incidence of young-onset colorectal cancer in Canada continues to increase	24
Uncommon EGFR mutations in non-small-cell lung cancer: A systematic literature review of prevalence and clinical outcomes	22
The metastatic pattern of intestinal and diffuse type gastric carcinoma – A Dutch national cohort study	22
Use of metformin and aspirin is associated with delayed cancer incidence	22
Routes to diagnosis and the association with the prognosis in patients with cancer – A nationwide register-based cohort study in Denmark	21
The Danish metastatic melanoma database (DAMMED): A nation-wide platform for quality assurance and research in real-world data on medical therapy in Danish melanoma patients	21
Parity and risk of developing breast cancer according to tumor subtype: A systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Increasing Area Deprivation Index negatively impacts ovarian cancer survival	21
Risk of gonadal neoplasia in patients with disorders/differences of sex development	20
Childhood cancer in Latin America: from detection to palliative care and survivorship	19
Recent cancer incidence trends in Ukraine and short-term predictions to 2022	19

Rare cancers are not rare in Asia as well: The rare cancer burden in East Asia	18
Incidence of radiation induced sarcoma attributable to radiotherapy in adults: A retrospective cohort study in the SEER cancer registries across 17 primary tumor sites	18
Physical activity and cancer risk: Findings from the UK Biobank, a large prospective cohort study	18
Prevalence and determinants of cervical cancer screening in five sub-Saharan African countries: A population-based study	17
HLA-DRB1 alleles and cervical cancer: A meta-analysis of 36 case-control studies	17
Racial disparities in colorectal cancer time-to-treatment and survival time in relation to diagnosing hospital cancer-related diagnostic and treatment capabilities	16
The effects of shift work and sleep duration on cancer incidence in Alberta`s Tomorrow Project cohort	16
Clinical characteristics and a rising incidence of early-onset colorectal cancer in a nationwide cohort of 521 patients aged 18-40 years	16
Age and metastasis – How age influences metastatic spread in cancer. Colorectal cancer as a model	16
Epidemiology of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: A first estimate of incidence and prevalence using the French nationwide healthcare database	16
Childhood cancer care in the Middle East, North Africa, and West/Central Asia: A snapshot across five countries from the POEM network	16
Coffee consumption and risk of colorectal cancer in the Cancer Prevention Study-II Nutrition Cohort	16
Increased association of ovarian cancer in women with histological proven endosalpingiosis	16
Imaging activity possibly signalling missed diagnostic opportunities in bladder and kidney cancer: A longitudinal data-linkage study using primary care electronic health records	16
Outdoor artificial light at night and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma among women in the California Teachers Study cohort	15
Infection with Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and risk of subsites within the oral cancer	15
A systematic review of the barriers and facilitators influencing the cancer screening behaviour among people with intellectual disabilities	15
Epidemiology of Kaposi’s sarcoma in sub-Saharan Africa	15
Renal cell carcinoma incidence rates and trends in young adults aged 20-39 years	15
Demographic and socioeconomic disparities in pediatric cancer in the United States: Current knowledge, deepening understanding, and expanding intervention	15
Platelet and hemoglobin count at diagnosis are associated with survival in African American and Caucasian patients with colorectal cancer	14
Incidence trends of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Saudi Arabia: Increasing incidence or competing risks?	14
Hepatitis C virus infection and risk of pancreatic cancer: A meta-analysis	14
A nationwide population-based study on overall survival after meningioma surgery	14
Sweetened beverage consumption and risk of liver cancer by diabetes status: A pooled analysis	14
Japanese cancer screening programs during the COVID-19 pandemic: Changes in participation between 2017-2020	14
Associations between comorbidities and advanced stage diagnosis of lung, breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Epidemiology and prognostic factors of pediatric brain tumor survival in the US: Evidence from four decades of population data	14
HPV DNA genotyping, HPV E6*I mRNA detection, and p16INK4a/Ki-67 staining in Belgian head and neck cancer patient specimens, collected within the HPV-AHEAD study	13
Repeat hepatectomy justified in patients with early recurrence of colorectal cancer liver metastases: A systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Toxoplasma gondii infection/exposure and the risk of brain tumors: A systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Effect of post-diagnosis exercise on depression symptoms, physical functioning and mortality in breast cancer survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized control trials	13
Infant cancers in France: Incidence and survival (2000–2014)	13
Trends in Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing and prostate cancer incidence and mortality in Australia: A critical analysis	13
Thyroid cancer overdiagnosis revisited	13
Recent cancer incidence trends and short-term predictions in Golestan, Iran 2004–2025	13
Association of circulating leptin and adiponectin levels with colorectal cancer risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis of case-control studies	12
Risk of positive selection bias in longitudinal surveys among cancer survivors: Lessons learnt from the national Norwegian Testicular Cancer Survivor Study	12
Levothyroxine treatment is associated with an increased relative risk of overall and organ specific incident cancers – a cohort study of the Swedish population	12
The association of serum lipid levels with colorectal cancer recurrence	12
Subsequent neoplasms in childhood cancer survivors	12
Sex is a strong prognostic factor in stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer patients and should be considered in survival rate estimation	12
Cigarette smoking and risk of second primary cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Proportion of cancer cases and deaths attributable to alcohol consumption by US state, 2013-2016	11
Exploring the influence of rural residence on uptake of organized cancer screening – A systematic review of international literature	11
Kidney cancer mortality disparities among Hispanics in the US	11
Sugar-containing beverages and their association with risk of breast, endometrial, ovarian and colorectal cancers among Canadian women	11
Area-level deprivation and oral cancer in England 2012–2016	11
Spatial and temporal variations in cervical cancer screening participation among indigenous and non-indigenous women, Queensland, Australia, 2008–2017	11
Multiple myeloma, race, insurance and treatment	10

Cancer incidence and stage at diagnosis among people with psychotic disorders: Systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Impact of comorbidities at diagnosis on the 10-year colorectal cancer net survival: A population-based study	10
Health related quality of life in adult cancer survivors: Importance of social and emotional support	10
Projections of the future burden of cancer in Australia using Bayesian age-period-cohort models	10
An examination between census tract unhealthy food availability and colorectal cancer incidence	10
Association of mycoplasma with prostate cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Tattoo inks and cancer	10
The prevalence of chronic conditions in patients diagnosed with one of 29 common and rarer cancers: A cross-sectional study using primary care data	10
Estimation of age-standardized net survival, even when age-specific data are sparse	10
Agreement between questionnaires and registry data on routes to diagnosis and milestone dates of the cancer diagnostic pathway	10
Lung cancer recurrence and mortality outcomes over a 10-year period using a multidisciplinary team approach	10
Johannesburg Cancer Study (JCS): contribution to knowledge and opportunities arising from 20 years of data collection in an African setting	10
Does changing healthcare use signal opportunities for earlier detection of cancer? A review of studies using information from electronic patient records	10
ABCB1/4 gallbladder cancer risk variants identified in India also show strong effects in Chileans	9
The impact of excluding or including Death Certificate Initiated (DCI) cases on estimated cancer survival: A simulation study	9
Sex hormones, SHBG and risk of colon and rectal cancer among men and women in the UK Biobank	9
Racial disparities and treatment trends among young-onset colorectal cancer patients: An analysis of a hospital cancer registry	9
Nitrates in drinking water and cancers of the colon and rectum: a meta-analysis of epidemiological studies	9
Validity of chemotherapy information derived from routinely collected healthcare data: A national cohort study of colon cancer patients	9
Prevalence of skin examination behaviours among Australians over time	9
Distinct clinical and genetic mutation characteristics in sporadic and Lynch syndrome-associated endometrial cancer in a Chinese population	9
Ethnic, racial and socioeconomic disparities in breast cancer survival in two Brazilian capitals between 1996 and 2012	9
Twenty-year sociodemographic trends in lung cancer in non-smokers: A UK-based cohort study of 3.7 million people	9
Evaluation of the impact of the European Code against Cancer on awareness and attitudes towards cancer prevention at the population and health promoters’ levels	9
Trends in colorectal cancer incidence in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (1996–2015): Joinpoint regression and age–period–cohort analyses	8
The association between dietary intakes of methionine, choline and betaine and breast cancer risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Short- and long-term survival outcomes among never smokers who developed lung cancer	8
Influences of rurality on action to diagnose cancer by primary care practitioners – Results from a Europe-wide survey in 20 countries	8
Exploring socioeconomic differences in surgery and in time to elective surgery for colon cancer in England: Population-based study	8
Environmental exposures related to parental habits in the perinatal period and the risk of Wilms' tumor in children	8
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	8
Diagnostic and prognostic value of miR-200 family in breast cancer: A meta-analysis and systematic review	8
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer screening participation among women in Japan, 2010–2019	8
Residential traffic exposure and lymphohematopoietic malignancies among children in the city of São Paulo, Brazil: An ecological study	8
County-level characteristics associated with incidence, late-stage incidence, and mortality from screenable cancers	8
Trends in pancreatic cancer incidence, characteristics, and outcomes in Denmark 1980–2019: A nationwide cohort study	8
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	8
Parental occupational organic dust exposure and selected childhood cancers in Denmark 1968–2016	8
Temporal trends in loss of life expectancy after a cancer diagnosis among the Australian population	8
Sleep problems and risk of cancer incidence and mortality in an older cohort: The Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS)	8
Cancer mortality 1981–2016 and contribution of specific cancers to current socioeconomic inequalities in all cancer mortality: A population-based study	8
Urinary concentration of endocrine-disrupting phthalates and breast cancer risk in Indian women: A case-control study with a focus on mutations in phthalate-responsive genes	8
The epidemiology of desmoid tumors in Denmark	8
Factors associated with 5- and 10-year survival among a recent cohort of childhood cancer survivors (France, 2000–2015)	8
Use of risk-based cervical screening programs in resource-limited settings	7
Risk of dementia in colorectal cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: A nationwide cohort study	7
An intronic variant in the CELF4 gene is associated with risk for colorectal cancer	7
Women cancers in India: Incidence, trends and their clinical extent from the National Cancer Registry Programme	7
The effect of silica exposure on the risk of lung cancer: A dose-response meta-analysis	7
Point of care tobacco treatment sustains during COVID-19, a global pandemic	7
Burden of cancer and changing cancer spectrum among older adults in China: Trends and projections to 2030	7
Gender disparities in clinical presentation, treatment, and outcomes in metastatic spine disease	7
Breast cancer trends in women younger than 40 years in Brazil	7
A 5-year evaluation of using stool-based test for opportunistic colorectal cancer screening in primary health institutions across Malaysia	7
Children and adolescents cancer incidence, mortality and survival a population-based study in Midwest of Brazil	7
Performance of low-dose computed tomography on lung cancer screening in high-risk populations: The experience over five screening rounds in Sichuan, China	7
Ovarian cancer in California: Guideline adherence, survival, and the impact of geographic location, 1996–2014	7
Validity of self-reported cancer: Comparison between self-report versus cancer registry records in the Geelong Osteoporosis Study	7
Social inequalities in cancer survival: A population-based study using the Costa Rican Cancer Registry	7
Can different definitions of date of cancer incidence explain observed international variation in cancer survival? An ICBP SURVMARK-2 study	7
Bladder, penile, renal pelvis and testis cancers: A population based analysis of incidence and survival 1977-2013	7
Risk of thyroid cancer following hysterectomy	7
Socioeconomic deprivation is associated with decreased survival in patients with acute myeloid leukemia	7
Association between Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination and lymphoma risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Cancer incidence and treatment utilization patterns at a regional cancer center in Tanzania from 2008-2016: Initial report of 2,772 cases	7
Geographic study of mortality due to mesothelioma in Peru and its evolution	7
Impact of preexisting type 2 diabetes mellitus and antidiabetic drugs on all-cause and cause-specific mortality among Medicaid-insured women diagnosed with breast cancer	7
The tobacco epidemic curve in Brazil: Where are we going?	6
Body mass index and risk of upper gastrointestinal cancer: A 30-year follow-up of the Linxian dysplasia nutrition intervention trial cohort	6
Population-based survival of lymphoid neoplasms: Twenty years of epidemiological data in the Girona province, Spain	6
Cruciferous vegetable consumption and pancreatic cancer: A case-control study	6
Cancer risk in patients with primary immune thrombocytopenia – A Swedish nationwide register study	6
Cancer incidence trends in the Czech Republic	6
Lithuanian cohort of Chernobyl cleanup workers: Cancer incidence follow-up 1986–2012	6
Coffee intake during pregnancy and childhood acute leukemia – A cohort study	6
Association of physical activity, body mass index and reproductive history with breast cancer by menopausal status in Iranian women	6
Occupational disparities in survival from common cancers in Japan: Analysis of Kanagawa cancer registry	6
International trends in the incidence of brain tumours in children and young-adults and their association with indicators of economic development	6
Temporal and geographical variations of thyroid cancer incidence and mortality in France during 1986–2015: The impact of overdiagnosis	6
A prospective study of inflammatory biomarkers and growth factors and risk of glioma in the UK Biobank	6

Influence of deprivation and rurality on patient-reported outcomes of men living with and beyond prostate cancer diagnosis in the UK: A population-based study	6
Global burden of oropharyngeal cancer attributable to human papillomavirus by anatomical subsite and geographic region	6
Exposure to tobacco smoke measured by urinary nicotine metabolites increases risk of p16/Ki-67 co-expression and high-grade cervical neoplasia in HPV positive women: A two year prospective study	6
Association between disparities in intergenerational economic mobility and cause-specific mortality among Black and White persons in the United States	6
Insurance status and level of education predict disparities in receipt of treatment and survival for anal squamous cell carcinoma	6
Temporal and geographic changes in stage at diagnosis in England during 2008–2013: A population-based study of colorectal, lung and ovarian cancers	6
Microsatellite instability in Costa Rican patients with colorectal adenocarcinoma and its association with overall survival and response to fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy	6
Maternal exposure to pesticides and risk of childhood lymphoma in France: A pooled analysis of the ESCALE and ESTELLE studies (SFCE)	6
What is the most appropriate period to define synchronous cancers?	6
Evaluation of disparities in maintaining healthy lifestyle behaviors among female cancer survivors by race/ethnicity and US nativity	6
Patterns and associations of smoking and electronic cigarette use among survivors of tobacco related and non-tobacco related cancers: A nationally representative cross-sectional analysis	6
Cumulative burden of subsequent neoplasms, cardiovascular and respiratory morbidity in young people surviving cancer	6
The association of VEGF rs833061 and rs2010963 polymorphisms with susceptibility to colorectal cancer in an Iranian population	6
Insurance status as a mediator of clinical presentation, type of intervention, and short-term outcomes for patients with metastatic spine disease	6
The association between the incidence of post-menopausal breast cancer and residential greenness	6
Dose-response relationship between fat distribution and liver cancer incidence: A prospective cohort study in Chinese men	6
Changing risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma in hyperendemic regions in the era of universal hepatitis B vaccination	6
CT scans in childhood predict subsequent brain cancer: Finite mixture modelling can help separate reverse causation scans from those that may be causal	6
Young adult cancer incidence trends in Taiwan and the U.S. from 2002 to 2016	5
Changes in colorectal cancer treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: Interrupted time-series analysis using the National Database of Japan	5
Ethiopian women's breast cancer self-examination practices and associated factors. A systematic review and meta-analysis	5
A prospective study of pre-diagnostic circulating tryptophan and kynurenine, and the kynurenine/tryptophan ratio and risk of glioma	5
Educational inequalities and regional variation in colorectal cancer survival in Finland	5
Racial/ethnic and sex differences in young adult malignant brain tumor incidence by histologic type	5
Progress in cancer survival across last two decades: A nationwide study of over 1.2 million Polish patients diagnosed with the most common cancers	5
Incidence of multiple myeloma in Kailuan cohort: A prospective community-based study in China	5
Health of children born to childhood cancer survivors: Participant characteristics and methods of the Multicenter Offspring Study	5
Appendectomy and the subsequent risk of cancer: A prospective population-based cohort study with long follow-up	5
Estimation of the performance of a risk prediction model for gastric cancer occurrence in Japan: Evidence from a small external population	5
Deprivation gap in colorectal cancer survival attributable to stage at diagnosis: A population-based study in Spain	5
Trends in pediatric lymphoma incidence by global region, age and sex from 1988-2012	5
A ten-year study of Retinoblastoma in Uganda: An approach to improving outcome with limited resources	5
Change in stage of presentation of head and neck cancer in the United States before and after the affordable care act	5
Gender differences in adherence to COVID-19 preventative measures and preferred sources of COVID-19 information among adolescents and young adults with cancer	5
Early detection of melanoma in specialised primary care practice in Australia	5
Diabetes increases the risk of meningioma: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies	5
Health economic evaluation of primary human papillomavirus screening in urban populations in China	5
The delay of breast cancer diagnosis and management during the Syrian war	5
Breast cancer in Brazil: Screening program and surgical approach	5
Changes in hospital variation in the probability of receiving treatment with curative intent for esophageal and gastric cancer	5
Prevalence of cigarette and e-cigarette use among U.S. adults eligible for lung cancer screening based on updated USPSTF guidelines	5
Personal history of autoimmune disease and other medical conditions and risk of myelodysplastic syndromes	5
Body mass index and weight gain after middle adulthood are associated with risk of papillary thyroid cancer: A case–control study	5
28-year incidence and time trends of childhood leukaemia in former East Germany compared to West Germany after German reunification: A study from the German Childhood Cancer Registry	5
Social gradient in cancer incidence in Costa Rica: Findings from a national population-based cancer registry	5
Do prognoses of patients with second primary cancers differ from those of patients with no prior cancer? A population-based study	5
Anthropometry, physical activity and cancer of unknown primary (CUP) risk: Results from the Netherlands cohort study	5
Development and validation of a coding framework to identify severe acute toxicity from systemic anti-cancer therapy using hospital administrative data	5
Descriptive epidemiology of cancer of unknown primary in South Korea, 1999–2017	5
Socioeconomic and administrative factors associated with treatment delay of esophageal and gastric carcinoma: Prospective study from a tertiary care centre in a developing country	5
Childhood cancer: A global perspective	5