Cancer Epidemiology

Article	Citations
Childhood cancer: Survival, treatment modalities, late effects and improvements over time	159
Childhood cancer: Estimating regional and global incidence	87
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	50
Childhood cancer in India	50
Validity of initial cancer diagnoses in the Diagnosis Procedure Combination data in Japan	44
Global burden of ototoxic hearing loss associated with platinum-based cancer treatment: A systematic review and meta-analysis	39
Ovarian cancer survival by stage, histotype, and pre-diagnostic lifestyle factors, in the prospective UK Million Women Study	38
The world cancer patient population (WCPP): An updated standard for international comparisons of population-based survival	38
Uncommon EGFR mutations in non-small-cell lung cancer: A systematic literature review of prevalence and clinical outcomes	34
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–	32
Trends in breast and cervical cancer in India under National Cancer Registry Programme: An Age-Period-Cohort analysis	31
The metastatic pattern of intestinal and diffuse type gastric carcinoma – A Dutch national cohort study	27
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	26
Parity and risk of developing breast cancer according to tumor subtype: A systematic review and meta-analysis	26
Increasing Area Deprivation Index negatively impacts ovarian cancer survival	26
Routes to diagnosis and the association with the prognosis in patients with cancer – A nationwide register-based cohort study in Denmark	26
The incidence of young-onset colorectal cancer in Canada continues to increase	25
Use of metformin and aspirin is associated with delayed cancer incidence	24
Childhood cancer in Latin America: from detection to palliative care and survivorship	23
Incidence of radiation induced sarcoma attributable to radiotherapy in adults: A retrospective cohort study in the SEER cancer registries across 17 primary tumor sites	23
Risk of gonadal neoplasia in patients with disorders/differences of sex development	22
Prevalence and determinants of cervical cancer screening in five sub-Saharan African countries: A population-based study	22
Cigarette smoking and risk of second primary cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	22
A systematic review of the barriers and facilitators influencing the cancer screening behaviour among people with intellectual disabilities	22
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	21

Associations between comorbidities and advanced stage diagnosis of lung, breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Age and metastasis – How age influences metastatic spread in cancer. Colorectal cancer as a model	20
Infection with Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and risk of subsites within the oral cancer	19
Epidemiology and prognostic factors of pediatric brain tumor survival in the US: Evidence from four decades of population data	19
Epidemiology of Kaposi’s sarcoma in sub-Saharan Africa	19
Childhood cancer care in the Middle East, North Africa, and West/Central Asia: A snapshot across five countries from the POEM network	19
A nationwide population-based study on overall survival after meningioma surgery	18
Sweetened beverage consumption and risk of liver cancer by diabetes status: A pooled analysis	18
Does changing healthcare use signal opportunities for earlier detection of cancer? A review of studies using information from electronic patient records	17
Japanese cancer screening programs during the COVID-19 pandemic: Changes in participation between 2017-2020	16
Outdoor artificial light at night and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma among women in the California Teachers Study cohort	16
Demographic and socioeconomic disparities in pediatric cancer in the United States: Current knowledge, deepening understanding, and expanding intervention	16
Cancer incidence and stage at diagnosis among people with psychotic disorders: Systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Epidemiology of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: A first estimate of incidence and prevalence using the French nationwide healthcare database	16
Thyroid cancer overdiagnosis revisited	16
Trends in Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing and prostate cancer incidence and mortality in Australia: A critical analysis	16
Toxoplasma gondii infection/exposure and the risk of brain tumors: A systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Repeat hepatectomy justified in patients with early recurrence of colorectal cancer liver metastases: A systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Multiple myeloma, race, insurance and treatment	14
The epidemiology of desmoid tumors in Denmark	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	14
Health related quality of life in adult cancer survivors: Importance of social and emotional support	14
Proportion of cancer cases and deaths attributable to alcohol consumption by US state, 2013-2016	14
Kidney cancer mortality disparities among Hispanics in the US	13
Diagnostic and prognostic value of miR-200 family in breast cancer: A meta-analysis and systematic review	13
Spatial and temporal variations in cervical cancer screening participation among indigenous and non-indigenous women, Queensland, Australia, 2008–2017	13
Use of risk-based cervical screening programs in resource-limited settings	13
Exploring the influence of rural residence on uptake of organized cancer screening – A systematic review of international literature	13
Association of circulating leptin and adiponectin levels with colorectal cancer risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis of case-control studies	12
Sleep problems and risk of cancer incidence and mortality in an older cohort: The Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS)	12
Evaluation of the impact of the European Code against Cancer on awareness and attitudes towards cancer prevention at the population and health promoters’ levels	12
Area-level deprivation and oral cancer in England 2012–2016	12
Prevalence of skin examination behaviours among Australians over time	12
Projections of the future burden of cancer in Australia using Bayesian age-period-cohort models	12
The impact of excluding or including Death Certificate Initiated (DCI) cases on estimated cancer survival: A simulation study	12
Impact of comorbidities at diagnosis on the 10-year colorectal cancer net survival: A population-based study	12
Sugar-containing beverages and their association with risk of breast, endometrial, ovarian and colorectal cancers among Canadian women	12
Nitrates in drinking water and cancers of the colon and rectum: a meta-analysis of epidemiological studies	11
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	11
Distinct clinical and genetic mutation characteristics in sporadic and Lynch syndrome-associated endometrial cancer in a Chinese population	11
Trends in colorectal cancer incidence in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (1996–2015): Joinpoint regression and age–period–cohort analyses	10
Association of mycoplasma with prostate cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis	10
County-level characteristics associated with incidence, late-stage incidence, and mortality from screenable cancers	10
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	10
Validity of chemotherapy information derived from routinely collected healthcare data: A national cohort study of colon cancer patients	10
Exploring socioeconomic differences in surgery and in time to elective surgery for colon cancer in England: Population-based study	10
Women cancers in India: Incidence, trends and their clinical extent from the National Cancer Registry Programme	10
Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer screening participation among women in Japan, 2010–2019	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
Evaluation of data quality at the Hungarian National Cancer Registry, 2000–2019	9

The impact of skin cancer prevention efforts in New South Wales, Australia: Generational trends in melanoma incidence and mortality	9
Burden of cancer and changing cancer spectrum among older adults in China: Trends and projections to 2030	9
Gender disparities in clinical presentation, treatment, and outcomes in metastatic spine disease	9
The association between dietary intakes of methionine, choline and betaine and breast cancer risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Sex hormones, SHBG and risk of colon and rectal cancer among men and women in the UK Biobank	9
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	9
Racial disparities and treatment trends among young-onset colorectal cancer patients: An analysis of a hospital cancer registry	9
Ethnic, racial and socioeconomic disparities in breast cancer survival in two Brazilian capitals between 1996 and 2012	9
Global burden of oropharyngeal cancer attributable to human papillomavirus by anatomical subsite and geographic region	9
Cancer mortality 1981–2016 and contribution of specific cancers to current socioeconomic inequalities in all cancer mortality: A population-based study	9
Short- and long-term survival outcomes among never smokers who developed lung cancer	9
Trends in pancreatic cancer incidence, characteristics, and outcomes in Denmark 1980–2019: A nationwide cohort study	9
Factors associated with 5- and 10-year survival among a recent cohort of childhood cancer survivors (France, 2000–2015)	9
Breast cancer trends in women younger than 40 years in Brazil	9
Cruciferous vegetable consumption and pancreatic cancer: A case-control study	9
Appendectomy and the subsequent risk of cancer: A prospective population-based cohort study with long follow-up	8
Insurance status as a mediator of clinical presentation, type of intervention, and short-term outcomes for patients with metastatic spine disease	8
Disparities in the long-term survival of adolescent and young adult diffuse large B cell lymphoma survivors	8
Body mass index and weight gain after middle adulthood are associated with risk of papillary thyroid cancer: A case–control study	8
A 5-year evaluation of using stool-based test for opportunistic colorectal cancer screening in primary health institutions across Malaysia	8
The association between fatty acid intake and breast cancer based on the NHANES and Mendelian randomization study	8
Occupational disparities in survival from common cancers in Japan: Analysis of Kanagawa cancer registry	8
Risk of dementia in colorectal cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: A nationwide cohort study	8
Residential traffic exposure and lymphohematopoietic malignancies among children in the city of São Paulo, Brazil: An ecological study	8
The effect of silica exposure on the risk of lung cancer: A dose-response meta-analysis	8
Changes in colorectal cancer treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: Interrupted time-series analysis using the National Database of Japan	8
Point of care tobacco treatment sustains during COVID-19, a global pandemic	7
Evaluation of disparities in maintaining healthy lifestyle behaviors among female cancer survivors by race/ethnicity and US nativity	7
Ethiopian women's breast cancer self-examination practices and associated factors. A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
The association of VEGF rs833061 and rs2010963 polymorphisms with susceptibility to colorectal cancer in an Iranian population	7
Occurrence of comorbidity with colorectal cancer and variations by age and stage at diagnosis	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
International trends in the incidence of brain tumours in children and young-adults and their association with indicators of economic development	7
A ten-year study of Retinoblastoma in Uganda: An approach to improving outcome with limited resources	7
Socioeconomic status and its relation with breast cancer recurrence and survival in young women in the Netherlands	7
Progress in cancer survival across last two decades: A nationwide study of over 1.2 million Polish patients diagnosed with the most common cancers	7
Risk of thyroid cancer following hysterectomy	7
Ovarian cancer in California: Guideline adherence, survival, and the impact of geographic location, 1996–2014	7
Trends in pediatric lymphoma incidence by global region, age and sex from 1988-2012	7
Examining methodology to identify patterns of consulting in primary care for different groups of patients before a diagnosis of cancer: An exemplar applied to oesophagogastric cancer	7
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	7
Colonoscopy screening and surveillance disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
An intronic variant in the CELF4 gene is associated with risk for colorectal cancer	7
Do prognoses of patients with second primary cancers differ from those of patients with no prior cancer? A population-based study	6
Cancer incidence trends in the Czech Republic	6
Dose-response relationship between fat distribution and liver cancer incidence: A prospective cohort study in Chinese men	6
Quantification of overdiagnosis in randomised trials of cancer screening: an overview and re-analysis of systematic reviews	6
Association between disparities in intergenerational economic mobility and cause-specific mortality among Black and White persons in the United States	6
Trends in brain cancers (glioma) in New Zealand from 1995 to 2020, with reference to mobile phone use	6
A prospective study of inflammatory biomarkers and growth factors and risk of glioma in the UK Biobank	6
What is the most appropriate period to define synchronous cancers?	6
Racial/ethnic and sex differences in young adult malignant brain tumor incidence by histologic type	6
Cancer risk in patients with primary immune thrombocytopenia – A Swedish nationwide register study	6
Risk factors for childhood brain tumours: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies from 1976 to 2022	6
Dietary Inflammatory Index, Alternative Healthy Eating Index-2010, Mediterranean Diet Score and the risk of pancreatic cancer	6
Global trends in esophageal cancer mortality with predictions to 2025, and in incidence by histotype	6
The association between the incidence of post-menopausal breast cancer and residential greenness	6
Young adult cancer incidence trends in Taiwan and the U.S. from 2002 to 2016	6
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	6
Feasibility of Rapid Case Ascertainment for Cancer in East Africa: An Investigation of Community-Representative Kaposi Sarcoma in the Era of Antiretroviral Therapy	6
Temporal and geographical variations of thyroid cancer incidence and mortality in France during 1986–2015: The impact of overdiagnosis	6
Health economic evaluation of primary human papillomavirus screening in urban populations in China	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
Risk factors associated with head and neck cancer in former smokers: A Brazilian multicentric study	6
The delay of breast cancer diagnosis and management during the Syrian war	6
Opium use as an independent risk factor for pancreatic cancer: A case-control study	6
Reproductive and menstrual factors for papillary thyroid cancer risk: A case-control study in Chinese women	6
Lithuanian cohort of Chernobyl cleanup workers: Cancer incidence follow-up 1986–2012	6
Personal history of autoimmune disease and other medical conditions and risk of myelodysplastic syndromes	6
Glioblastoma in adolescents and young adults: An age-based comparative study from Jordan over a 17-year period	6
Population-based survival of lymphoid neoplasms: Twenty years of epidemiological data in the Girona province, Spain	6
Development and validation of a coding framework to identify severe acute toxicity from systemic anti-cancer therapy using hospital administrative data	6
Diabetes increases the risk of meningioma: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies	6
Effectiveness of population-based colorectal cancer screening programme in down-staging	5
Increasing incidence and survival of paediatric and adolescent thyroid cancer in Cyprus 1998–2017: A population-based study from the Cyprus Pediatric Oncology Registry	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
Changes in hospital variation in the probability of receiving treatment with curative intent for esophageal and gastric cancer	5
Early-onset colorectal cancer risk extends to second- and third-degree relatives	5
Socioeconomic differences in prostate cancer treatment: 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
Comparative evaluation of two colorectal cancer screening campaigns using different faecal occult blood tests in a French area	5
Lymphoid blood cancers, incidence and survival 2005-2023: A report from the UK’s Haematological Malignancy Research Network	5
Anthropometry, physical activity and cancer of unknown primary (CUP) risk: Results from the Netherlands cohort study	5
The effect of age on the opportunity to receive cancer treatment	5
European trends in cervical cancer mortality in relation to national screening programs, 1985–2014	5
Coverage rate of opportunistic and organised breast cancer screening in France: Department-level estimation	5
Perceptions of e-cigarette harm among cancer survivors: Findings from a nationally representative survey	5
Breast cancer in Brazil: Screening program and surgical approach	5
Reproductive factors and breast cancer risk in Palestine: A case control study	5
Mortality in patients with cancer and SARS-CoV-2 infection: Results from the Argentinean Network of Hospital-Based Cancer Registries	5
An update on the current epidemiological status of metastatic neoplasms to the thyroid	5
A retrospective analysis of human papillomavirus (HPV) prevalence and genotype distribution among 25,238 women in Shanghai, China revealed the limitations of current HPV-based screening and HPV vaccin	5
Sustainability and monitoring of the European Code Against Cancer: Recommendations	5
Investigation of cancer incidence in ELSA-Brasil	5
Follow-up of women screened for cervical cancer in São Paulo, Brazil: An analysis of the times to diagnostic investigation and treatment	5
Early detection of melanoma in specialised primary care practice in Australia	5
Incidence and prognosis of patients with small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors in a population based nationwide study	5
Disentangling the obesity paradox in upper gastrointestinal cancers: Weight loss matters more than body mass index	5
Health of children born to childhood cancer survivors: Participant characteristics and methods of the Multicenter Offspring Study	5
Socio-economic inequalities on cancer mortality in nine European areas: The effect of the last economic recession	5
Descriptive epidemiology of cancer of unknown primary in South Korea, 1999–2017	5
Pre-diagnosis lifestyle, health history and psychosocial factors associated with stage at breast cancer diagnosis – Potential targets to shift stage earlier	5
Prevalence of cigarette and e-cigarette use among U.S. adults eligible for lung cancer screening based on updated USPSTF guidelines	5
High serum riboflavin is associated with the risk of sporadic colorectal cancer	5
Leisure-time physical activity is associated with reduced risks of breast cancer and triple negative breast cancer in Nigerian women	5
Reliability of a computational platform as a surrogate for manually interpreted immunohistochemical markers in breast tumor tissue microarrays	5
The effect of the Flemish breast cancer screening program on breast cancer-specific mortality: A case-referent study	5
Childhood cancer epidemiology in the Czech Republic (1994–2016)	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
Anticipated delay in help-seeking for cancer symptoms: Findings from a nationwide study of Malaysian adults	5
Age-related differences in colon and rectal cancer survival by stage, histology, and tumour site: An analysis of United States SEER-18 data	5
Reproductive and external hormonal factors and the risk of renal cell cancer in the Netherlands Cohort Study	5
Abdominal investigations in the year preceding a diagnosis of abdominal cancer: A register-based cohort study in Denmark	5
History and current status of cancer registration in Russia	5