Cancer Epidemiology

Papers
(The TQCC of Cancer Epidemiology is 6. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Age-period-cohort effects on incidence trends of childhood leukemia from four population-based cancer registries in Colombia68
Gender differences in adherence to COVID-19 preventative measures and preferred sources of COVID-19 information among adolescents and young adults with cancer66
Survival from five common cancers in Georgia, 2015–2019 (CONCORD)64
Hot beverage consumption in the African Esophageal Cancer Corridor: A community-based thermal exposure measurement study across the lifespan64
Low baseline vitamin D levels increase the risk of bone metastases among females with breast cancer − Hospital based cohort study56
The effect of age on the opportunity to receive cancer treatment54
Cancers attributable to tobacco smoking in Italy in 202044
Validity of using general and cancer-specific health administrative data to identify treatment exposures in adolescents and young adults with cancer: A population-based study using the IMPACT cohort43
Interleukin gene polymorphisms (IL1B, IL6, IL10, IL16, IL28B) increase prostate cancer risk and associate with aggressive disease features in Iraqi men: A case-control study40
Biased effects of pre-diagnostic physical activity on breast cancer survival: Systematic review and meta-analysis39
Incidence and prognosis of patients with small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors in a population based nationwide study38
Serum bilirubin subgroups and cancer risk: Insights with a focus on lung cancer34
Trends in pancreatic cancer incidence, characteristics, and outcomes in Denmark 1980–2019: A nationwide cohort study34
Health related quality of life in adult cancer survivors: Importance of social and emotional support32
The validity of cancer information on death certificates in Norway and the impact of death certificate initiated cases on cancer incidence and survival32
Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 and risk of hospital admission and death among infected cancer patients: A population-based study in northern Italy30
Beyond the urban-rural divide: Exploring spatial variations in breast cancer outcomes in Queensland, Australia30
Risk of developing hypothyroidism with the use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors and immune checkpoint inhibitors29
Disparities in colorectal cancer time-to-treatment and survival time associated with racial and economic residential segregation surrounding the diagnostic hospital, Georgia 2010–201529
Ethiopian women's breast cancer self-examination practices and associated factors. A systematic review and meta-analysis26
Incidence and relative survival of pancreatic adenocarcinoma and pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms in Germany, 2009–2018. An in-depth analysis of two population-based cancer registries26
Different prognosis of left compared to right breast cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis26
Trends in incidence, mortality and survival of gastric cancer in Xiamen, China from 2011 to 2020: A population-based study24
Classic myeloproliferative neoplasms in Singapore: A population-based study on incidence, trends, and survival from 1968 to 201723
Treatment differences and long-term outcomes in adults and children with Ewing sarcoma23
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 stu22
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Chronic metformin intake and gastric cancer: A pooled analysis within the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project21
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Three-year hospital service use trajectories of people diagnosed with cancer: A retrospective cohort study21
Aggregation of melanoma tumour site within Western Australian families20
Cardiovascular risk factor reporting in immune checkpoint inhibitor trials: A systematic review20
Breast cancer incidence and stage at diagnosis in the six US-Affiliated Pacific Islands20
Health locus of control and symptom distress: The mediating role of illness acceptance and symptom severity in acute leukemia patients19
Predictors of treatment initiation and mapping the cancer diagnostic pathway: A retrospective observational cohort study of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer19
Residential exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and incident breast cancer among young women in Ontario, Canada19
Fasting plasma glucose and alanine aminotransferase on the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma: A nested case-control study19
Polycystic ovary syndrome and risk of differentiated thyroid cancer: A nationwide, register-based cohort study based on Danish health data18
Gender differences in tumor characteristics, treatment and survival of colorectal cancer: A population-based study18
Glycogen synthase kinase-3ß inhibitor use and prostate cancer incidence in Manitoba, Canada: A population-based nested case–control study18
Point of care tobacco treatment sustains during COVID-19, a global pandemic18
Pre-existing psychological disorders, diabetes, and pancreatic cancer: A population-based study of 38,952 Finns18
A systematic review and meta-analysis of mortality in anal cancer patients by HIV status18
Incidence and survival of patients with melanoma in Colombia17
A prospective study of pre-diagnostic circulating tryptophan and kynurenine, and the kynurenine/tryptophan ratio and risk of glioma17
Improving diagnostic strategies for ovarian cancer in Filipino women using ultrasound imaging and a multivariate index assay17
Socio-demographic inequalities in stage at diagnosis of lung cancer: A French population-based study17
Prevalence of cancer risk behaviors by county-level persistent poverty16
Incidence and survival of patients with malignant pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms in Germany, 2009–202115
REV3L single nucleotide variants lead to increased susceptibility towards non-small cell lung cancer in the population of Jammu and Kashmir14
Impact of socioeconomic individual and ecological factors on extreme diagnosis-to-treatment interval in diffuse large B-Cell lymphoma in the French real-world cohort REALYSA14
Mortality in patients with cancer and SARS-CoV-2 infection: Results from the Argentinean Network of Hospital-Based Cancer Registries14
Introduction of the Danish Lung Nodule Registry: A part of the Danish Lung Cancer Registry14
Corrigendum to “The impact of delayed screening colonoscopies during the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical outcomes” [Cancer Epidemiol. 92 (2024) 102629]14
Epidemiology of carcinomatosis14
External validation of prediction models for early relapse in advanced epithelial ovarian cancer using Australian and Dutch population-based data14
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 study13
Smoking and other health factors in patients with head and neck cancer13
Survival pattern of colorectal cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis13
Disparities in survival improvement for U.S. childhood and adolescent cancer between 1995 and 2019: An analysis of population-based data13
Associations between neighborhood socioeconomic status, readmission, and mortality for patients with cancer: A nationwide cohort study13
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Prediction model establishment of prognosis factors for distant metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma based on the SEER database13
Neuroblastoma in Spain: Linking the national clinical database and epidemiological registries – A study by the Joint Action on Rare Cancers12
Trends in cancer mortality in the elderly and oldest old in South America12
Geographic variations in cancer incidence and mortality in the State of São Paulo, Brazil 2001–1712
Side effects of drug-antibody conjugates enfortumab-vedotin and sacituzumab-govitecan in targeted therapy in cancer12
The impact of skin cancer prevention efforts in New South Wales, Australia: Generational trends in melanoma incidence and mortality12
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 study12
Investigating factors affecting the effectiveness of Gardasil 4, Cervarix, and Gardasil 9 vaccines considering the WHO regions in females: A systematic review12
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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)11
The association between marital status and treatment initiation in lung cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies11
Dose-response relationship between fat distribution and liver cancer incidence: A prospective cohort study in Chinese men11
A population-based analysis of cancer survival in Fujian Province, southeast China during 2021–202311
Disease burden of cancers attributable to high fasting plasma glucose from 1990 to 2021 and projections until 2031 in China11
Notification of locoregional breast cancer recurrence based on pathology reports: A nationwide validation study with the Netherlands Cancer Registry11
Pre-diagnostic circulating p53 autoantibodies and subsequent lung cancer risk in low-income African and European Americans11
The influence of sociodemographic factors on barriers to breast cancer screening: A cross-sectional study11
Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of hepatocellular carcinoma in Xiamen11
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 decades11
Lung cancer in nonsmokers- A risk factor analysis10
Cancer incidence in ELSA-Brasil: Making the case for population based cancer registries in Brazil10
Quantification of overdiagnosis in randomised trials of cancer screening: an overview and re-analysis of systematic reviews10
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]10
Use of conditional estimates of effect in cancer epidemiology: An application to lung cancer treatment10
Cancer mortality 1981–2016 and contribution of specific cancers to current socioeconomic inequalities in all cancer mortality: A population-based study10
Association between insulin resistance related indicators with the prognosis of patients with colorectal cancer10
Hysterectomy and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer by histologic type, endometriosis, and menopausal hormone therapy10
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]10
Stomach cancer incidence trends in selected Latin America countries: Age, period, and birth-cohort effects10
Prostate cancer incidence rates, trends, and treatment related to prostate-specific antigen screening recommendations in the United States10
The incidence trends of papillary thyroid carcinoma in Belarus during the post-Chernobyl epoch10
Whole-population trends in pathology-confirmed cancer incidence in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A retrospective observational study10
Evaluating the efficacy of artificial intelligence tools for the automation of systematic reviews in cancer research: A systematic review9
Appendectomy and the subsequent risk of cancer: A prospective population-based cohort study with long follow-up9
Associations of demographic and perinatal factors with childhood neuroblastoma in Texas, 1995–20119
Initial screening of gastric cancer using oral contrast-enhanced trans-abdominal ultrasonography in rural asymptomatic individuals9
Genetically inferred birthweight, height, and puberty timing and risk of osteosarcoma9
Occurrence of comorbidity with colorectal cancer and variations by age and stage at diagnosis9
Rural cancer disparities from Oklahoma cancer and vital records registries 2016–20209
Repeat hepatectomy justified in patients with early recurrence of colorectal cancer liver metastases: A systematic review and meta-analysis9
Effectiveness of population-based colorectal cancer screening programme in down-staging9
Are older patients less likely to be treated for pancreatic cancer? A systematic review and meta-analysis9
Coverage rate of opportunistic and organised breast cancer screening in France: Department-level estimation9
Sleep disturbances among cancer survivors9
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) mortality in Vietnam war era veterans9
Cadmium in biological samples and site-specific cancer risk and mortality: A systematic review of original articles and meta-analyses8
Acute leukaemia: Patient factors associated with unplanned diagnostic pathways and the impact on survival – A nationwide register-based cohort study in Denmark8
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lung cancer diagnoses and mortality: A nationwide study in France8
Algorithm development for identifying breast cancer incident cases and epidemiological updates: A cohort study based on multiple secondary sources8
Assessing the impact of environmental tobacco smoke on five-year cancer mortality8
Colorectal cancer incidence trends in Golestan, Iran: An age-period-cohort analysis 2004–20188
Childhood and adolescents’ cancer survival: Progress made and priorities for improvement. An Italian population-based study8
Multi-state survival models with treatment effects and biomarkers: Simulations for study design assessment8
Risk factors for childhood brain tumours: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies from 1976 to 20228
Innovative use of Australian cancer registry data for early detection of the effects of epidemics and other mass disruptions on cancer incidence8
Colorectal cancer incidence in a multi-ethnic population: Age-period-cohort analysis of trends in Singapore8
Non-smoking women need more attention in lung cancer screening: A real-world study from China8
Examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on invasive breast cancer incidence in Ireland: A population-based study8
Epidemiology and risk factors of invasive pulmonary fungal disease in patients with lung cancer8
Colorectal cancer among farmers in the AGRICAN cohort study8
Clinicopathologic predictors of early relapse in advanced epithelial ovarian cancer: development of prediction models using nationwide data8
Risk factors associated with head and neck cancer in former smokers: A Brazilian multicentric study8
The association of the healthy eating index with risk of colorectal cancers (overall and by subsite) among Canadians8
Head and neck cancer mortality trends in Espírito Santo, Brazil8
Survival after breast cancer according to participation in organised or opportunistic screening and deprivation8
Risk of second primary cancers among melanoma survivors following radiotherapy: A population-based cohort study8
Association between antihypertensive medicine use and risk of ovarian cancer in women aged 50 years and older8
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 study8
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 regis8
Pharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma and risk of later esophageal squamous cell carcinoma – A nationwide population-based matched case-control study8
Reproductive and external hormonal factors and the risk of renal cell cancer in the Netherlands Cohort Study8
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Predictors and consequences of different pathways to emergency diagnosis of cancer in England: Evidence from linked national audit and cancer registration data7
Trends in head and neck cancer incidence in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam between 1996 and 20157
Risk factors for breast cancer and their association with molecular subtypes in a population of Northeast Brazil7
Breast and colorectal cancer recurrence-free survival estimates in the US: Modeling versus active data collection7
Examining concordance with the guidelines of the national comprehensive cancer network for the treatment of endometrial cancer in Puerto Rico7
Lung cancer from suspicion to treatment: An indicator of healthcare access in Turkey7
The challenge of ovarian cancer care in the oldest old7
Evaluation of disparities in maintaining healthy lifestyle behaviors among female cancer survivors by race/ethnicity and US nativity7
Mortality risk among adult americans living with cancer and elevated CRP7
Understanding gastrointestinal cancer mortality disparities in a racially and geographically diverse population7
Fair comparisons of cause-specific and relative survival by accounting for the systematic removal of patients from risk-sets7
Association between metabolic syndrome and participation in colorectal cancer screening in Japan: A retrospective cohort analysis using LIFE study data7
HPV-driven oropharyngeal cancer burden in Paris and its region (ILE DE FRANCE) from 1981 TO 20217
Latin American and the Caribbean Code Against Cancer 1st edition: Infections and cancer7
Vitamin D-related genetic variants and prostate cancer risk in Black men7
Risk of carcinomas among children and adolescents with birth defects7
Lymphoid blood cancers, incidence and survival 2005-2023: A report from the UK’s Haematological Malignancy Research Network7
Hospital surgical volume and colorectal cancer survival in Norway: A nationwide cohort study7
Relationships between serum iron and liver diseases in nutrition intervention trials: A nested case-control study7
Survival of primary liver cancer for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Australia7
Temporal trends in age and stage-specific incidence of colorectal cancer in Saudi Arabia: A registry-based cohort study between 1997 and 20177
Prevalence of Human Papilloma Virus in Coquimbo, Chile7
Role of social status and social environment on net survival in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia: A high-resolution population-based study7
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)7
Changes in the salivary cotinine cut-offs to discriminate smokers and non-smokers before and after Spanish smoke-free legislation6
Treatment outcomes for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in low-middle income country before minimal residual disease risk stratification6
Sexual identity differences in biomarkers of tobacco exposure among women in a national sample6
Socioeconomic differences in prostate cancer treatment: A systematic review and meta-analysis6
Prognosis related to treatment plan in patients with biliary tract cancer: A nationwide database study6
Differences in recording of cancer diagnosis between datasets in England: A population-based study of linked cancer registration, hospital, and primary care data6
A meta-analysis of sunburn and basal cell carcinoma risk6
Cigarette smoking and risk of second primary cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis6
Epidemiology of laryngeal cancer in Brazil: Historical data from 2000 to 20196
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of systemic therapy for patients diagnosed with cancer in England: A population-based study with a focus on breast and lung cancer6
Unveiling the shifting trends and landscape of dietary-related cancer burden in China, global and different income regions: Based on GBD20216
Toxoplasma gondii infection/exposure and the risk of brain tumors: A systematic review and meta-analysis6
Liver cancer in Saudi Arabia: A registry-based nationwide descriptive epidemiological and survival analysis6
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 s6
Challenges of cancer registration and epidemiology in Italy6
Cancer incidence after an open cut coal mine fire6
Pre-diagnostic cigarette smoking and risk of second primary cancer: The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study6
The intersection of race, ethnicity, and urbanicity on treatment paradigms and clinical outcomes for non-malignant primary tumors of the spine6
Gynaecological cancer incidence and mortality trends in a Brazilian State with medium human development index: A 22-year analysis6
Breast cancer incidence trends in Golestan, Iran: An age-period-cohort analysis by ethnic region, 2004-20186
Survival rate of colorectal cancer and its relation to the individual and geographical variations in Malaysia, 2013–20186
Employment outcomes among cancer patients in the United States6
The interaction between systemic inflammatory markers and polygenic risk score in breast cancer risk: A cohort study in the UK Biobank6
The contribution of rural/urban residence to incidence and survival in thymoma and thymic carcinoma, a retrospective cohort study of the SEER 2000–2020 database6
Response to shared decision making in prostate cancer screening: Different perspective of public health physicians and urologists6
Racial differences in carcinoma-in-situ and non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer mortality: Accounting for insurance status, black segregation, and neighborhood poverty6
Cancer incidence and spectrum among Uygurs in Hotan District in China6
Systematic review of smoking relapse rates among cancer survivors who quit at the time of cancer diagnosis6
Exploring the influence of rural residence on uptake of organized cancer screening – A systematic review of international literature6
Is opium use related to the increased risk of oral cavity cancers? A case-control study in Iran6
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the association of human papilloma virus infections with ocular surface squamous neoplasia6
An update on the current epidemiological status of metastatic neoplasms to the thyroid6
Metabolic syndrome and risk of esophageal cancer by histological type: Systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies6
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