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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Socioeconomic position, psychiatric medical treatment and risk of breast cancer recurrence and mortality: A Danish population-based cohort study	212
Clinical profile, staging and oncological treatment of ten leading cancer types between young vs older patients from 2000 to 2019 in Brazil	111
Distributions and trends in the global burden of young-onset tracheal, bronchus, and lung cancer by region, age, and sex from 1990 to 2021: An age-period-cohort analysis	59
Serum bilirubin subgroups and cancer risk: Insights with a focus on lung cancer	58
Trends in incidence, mortality and survival of gastric cancer in Xiamen, China from 2011 to 2020: A population-based study	53
Trends in incidence and survival of the four most common cancers by stage at diagnosis in Cyprus: A population-based study from 2004 to 2017	49
Different prognosis of left compared to right breast cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis	49
Social gradient and rural-urban disparities in cancer mortality in Costa Rica	42
Joint association of drinking alcohol and obesity in relation to cancer risk: A systematic review and data synthesis	35
The challenge of ovarian cancer care in the oldest old	33
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	32
Differences in lung cancer death rates by rural vs. urban status in comparison to all-cancer death rates — United States, 1999–2020	32
Corrigendum to “Biased effects of pre-diagnostic physical activity on breast cancer survival: Systematic review and meta-analysis” [Cancer Epidemiol. 89 (2024) 102544]	31
Prevalence of Human Papilloma Virus in Coquimbo, Chile	31
Vitamin D-related genetic variants and prostate cancer risk in Black men	30
Treatment switching between Enzalutamide and Abiraterone Acetate and time to oral opioid initiation in castration-resistant prostate cancer patients	29
Risk of carcinomas among children and adolescents with birth defects	28
Socioeconomic status and its relation with breast cancer recurrence and survival in young women in the Netherlands	26
Incidence of prostate, colorectal and male breast cancers in relation with statins and testosterone replacement therapy: SEER-Medicare 2007–2015	25
Suicide among patients with oral cancer: A population-based study	25
Treatment differences and long-term outcomes in adults and children with Ewing sarcoma	24
The association between height and risk of lung cancer subtypes in men and women in the Netherlands Cohort Study	24
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	23
Increased incidence of rare cancers and varied age distributions by cancer group: A population-based cancer registry study in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan	22
Cancers attributable to tobacco smoking in Italy in 2020	22

Mortality risk among adult americans living with cancer and elevated CRP	21
Characteristics of patients with lung cancer in clinical practice and their potential eligibility for clinical trials evaluating tyrosine kinase inhibitors or immune checkpoint inhibitors	21
The effect of the Flemish breast cancer screening program on breast cancer-specific mortality: A case-referent study	21
Latin American and the Caribbean Code Against Cancer 1st edition: Weight, physical activity, diet, breastfeeding, and cancer	20
Latin American and the Caribbean Code Against Cancer 1st edition: Infections and cancer	20
Global variation in young adult central nervous system tumor incidence by region, age, and sex from 1988 to 2012	20
Gender-specific trends in cigarette smoking and lung cancer incidence: A two-stage age-stratified Bayesian joinpoint model	18
Supplement title page	18
Title page / Editorial Board	17
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Table of contents	16
Why are so few professionals providing adequate care for smoking cessation?	16
American Indian/Alaska Native and black colon cancer patients have poorer cause-specific survival based on disease stage and anatomic site of diagnosis	15
Incidence patterns of childhood non-Wilms renal tumors: Comparing data of the Nationwide Registry of Childhood Hematological Malignancies and Solid Tumors (NARECHEM-ST), Greece, and the Surveillance,	15
Geographic disparities in cardiovascular mortality among patients with myelodysplastic syndromes: A population-based analysis.	15
Occupational exposure to solar ultraviolet B radiation and risk of prostate cancer in Danish men	15
Survival of primary liver cancer for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Australia	14
Disparities in colorectal cancer time-to-treatment and survival time associated with racial and economic residential segregation surrounding the diagnostic hospital, Georgia 2010–2015	13
Differences in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients who did and did not undergo screening: Results from the 45 and Up Study cohort	13
The validity of cancer information on death certificates in Norway and the impact of death certificate initiated cases on cancer incidence and survival	13
Post-surgery statin use contributes to favorable outcomes in patients with early breast cancer	13
Role of social status and social environment on net survival in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia: A high-resolution population-based study	13
Lifetime caffeine intake and the risk of epithelial ovarian cancer	13
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XPF -673C>T variation is associated with the susceptibility to breast cancer	13
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Prognostic factors in high-grade pediatric osteosarcoma among children and young adults: Greek Nationwide Registry for Childhood Hematological Malignancies and Solid Tumors (NARECHEM-ST) data along wi	13
Lung cancer from suspicion to treatment: An indicator of healthcare access in Turkey	12
Age-period-cohort effects on incidence trends of childhood leukemia from four population-based cancer registries in Colombia	12
Prevalence of esophageal squamous dysplasia in relatives of patients with esophageal cancer in Southwestern Kenya	12
Mortality in small bowel cancers and adenomas – A nationwide, population-based matched cohort study	12
The emerging role of miR-653 in human cancer	12
Hospital surgical volume and colorectal cancer survival in Norway: A nationwide cohort study	12
A ten-year study of Retinoblastoma in Uganda: An approach to improving outcome with limited resources	12
Fair comparisons of cause-specific and relative survival by accounting for the systematic removal of patients from risk-sets	11
Racial disparities and treatment trends among young-onset colorectal cancer patients: An analysis of a hospital cancer registry	11
The impact of individual-level income predicted from the BRFSS on the association between insurance status and overall survival among adults with cancer from the SEER program	11
Childhood cancer in India	11
Biased effects of pre-diagnostic physical activity on breast cancer survival: Systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Risk factors for breast cancer and their association with molecular subtypes in a population of Northeast Brazil	11
Incidence trends of adult glioma in Norway and its association with occupation and education: A registry-based cohort study	11
Temporal and geographical variations of thyroid cancer incidence and mortality in France during 1986–2015: The impact of overdiagnosis	10
The effect of age on the opportunity to receive cancer treatment	10
Trajectories of body mass index across the lifecourse and associations with post-menopausal breast cancer by estrogen receptor status	10
Global changes in bladder cancer mortality in the elderly	10
Editorial Board	10
Smoking cessation after a cancer diagnosis: Commentary on special supplement in Cancer Epidemiology	10
What is the most appropriate period to define synchronous cancers?	10
Body mass index and weight gain after middle adulthood are associated with risk of papillary thyroid cancer: A case–control study	10

The value of blood-based measures of liver function and urate in lung cancer risk prediction: A cohort study and health economic analysis	9
Does changing healthcare use signal opportunities for earlier detection of cancer? A review of studies using information from electronic patient records	9
Interval cancers as related to frequency of recall to assessment in the South Australian population-based breast screening program: An exploratory study	9
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)	9
Burden of cancer and changing cancer spectrum among older adults in China: Trends and projections to 2030	9
Ethiopian women's breast cancer self-examination practices and associated factors. A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Follow-up of women screened for cervical cancer in São Paulo, Brazil: An analysis of the times to diagnostic investigation and treatment	9
A prospective study of inflammatory biomarkers and growth factors and risk of glioma in the UK Biobank	9
Co-occurrence of cancer and diabetes in a high-income country: Age-period-cohort projections 2020–2044	9
Breast and colorectal cancer recurrence-free survival estimates in the US: Modeling versus active data collection	9
Projections of the future burden of cancer in Australia using Bayesian age-period-cohort models	9
Low baseline vitamin D levels increase the risk of bone metastases among females with breast cancer − Hospital based cohort study	9
Trends in ovarian cancer net survival in a northeastern Brazilian state (1996–2017)	9
Trends in incidence and survival from anal cancer and incidence of high-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia in Denmark	9
Breast cancer incidence trends in Asian women aged 20 or older as compared to other ethnic women in the United States from 2000 to 2018 by time period, age and tumor stage	9
Classic myeloproliferative neoplasms in Singapore: A population-based study on incidence, trends, and survival from 1968 to 2017	9
Trends in pancreatic cancer incidence, characteristics, and outcomes in Denmark 1980–2019: A nationwide cohort study	9
Utility of prescription-based comorbidity indices for predicting mortality among Australian men with prostate cancer	8
Assessment of the relationships between invasive endocervical adenocarcinoma and human papillomavirus infection and distribution characteristics in China: According to the new WHO classification crite	8
Evaluation of disparities in maintaining healthy lifestyle behaviors among female cancer survivors by race/ethnicity and US nativity	8
Survival from five common cancers in Georgia, 2015–2019 (CONCORD)	8
Differences in risk factors for head and neck cancer among men and women in Nepal: A case-control study	8
Relationships between serum iron and liver diseases in nutrition intervention trials: A nested case-control study	8
Association between metabolic syndrome and participation in colorectal cancer screening in Japan: A retrospective cohort analysis using LIFE study data	8
HPV-driven oropharyngeal cancer burden in Paris and its region (ILE DE FRANCE) from 1981 TO 2021	8
Lessons learnt from the implementation of a colorectal cancer screening programme for lynch syndrome in a tertiary public hospital	8
Guideline interval: A new time interval in the diagnostic pathway for symptomatic cancer	8
Feasibility of Rapid Case Ascertainment for Cancer in East Africa: An Investigation of Community-Representative Kaposi Sarcoma in the Era of Antiretroviral Therapy	8
Six years of colorectal cancer mortality surveillance in the screening population for a risk stratified screening program	7
Prognostic value of comorbidity measures among Australian men with non-metastatic prostate cancer	7
Assessment of surveillance versus etiologic factors in the reciprocal association between papillary thyroid cancer and breast cancer	7
Understanding gastrointestinal cancer mortality disparities in a racially and geographically diverse population	7
Gender differences in adherence to COVID-19 preventative measures and preferred sources of COVID-19 information among adolescents and young adults with cancer	7
The effect of medications associated with drug-induced pancreatitis on pancreatic cancer risk: A nested case-control study of routine Scottish data	7
A prospective cohort study of physical activity in relation to lung cancer incidence among Black women	7
Lymphoid blood cancers, incidence and survival 2005-2023: A report from the UK’s Haematological Malignancy Research Network	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
Predictors and consequences of different pathways to emergency diagnosis of cancer in England: Evidence from linked national audit and cancer registration data	7
Male-origin microchimerism and endometrial cancer: A prospective case-cohort study	7
Temporal trends in age and stage-specific incidence of colorectal cancer in Saudi Arabia: A registry-based cohort study between 1997 and 2017	7
Hot beverage consumption in the African Esophageal Cancer Corridor: A community-based thermal exposure measurement study across the lifespan	7
Incidence and prognosis of patients with small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors in a population based nationwide study	7
Childhood cancer care in the Middle East, North Africa, and West/Central Asia: A snapshot across five countries from the POEM network	7
Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 and risk of hospital admission and death among infected cancer patients: A population-based study in northern Italy	7
Breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening test use in the US territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands	7
Trends in head and neck cancer incidence in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam between 1996 and 2015	6
The association between diabetes mellitus of different durations and risk of pancreatic cancer: an Australian national data-linkage study in women	6
The epidemiology of desmoid tumors in Denmark	6
Early and late detection of cancer in Georgia: Evidence from a population-based cancer registry, 2018–2019	6
Metformin’s role in lowering colorectal cancer risk among individuals with diabetes from the Southern Community Cohort Study	6
Machine learning computational model to predict lung cancer using electronic medical records	6
Childhood cancer: Estimating regional and global incidence	6
Prevalence and determinants of cervical cancer screening in five sub-Saharan African countries: A population-based study	6
A competing-risk nomogram for predicting gastric cancer-specific survival in patients over 70 years: A SEER-based study	6
Examining concordance with the guidelines of the national comprehensive cancer network for the treatment of endometrial cancer in Puerto Rico	6
Age-related differences in colon and rectal cancer survival by stage, histology, and tumour site: An analysis of United States SEER-18 data	6
Changes in the survival of adult patients with metastasized melanoma with the approval of immune checkpoint inhibitors: A retrospective study from the United States database	6
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Survival disparities for childhood cancers exist when defined by race/ethnicity and sex	6
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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	6
Socioeconomic factors and colorectal cancer incidence, stage and quality of care in Denmark during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Distinct clinical and genetic mutation characteristics in sporadic and Lynch syndrome-associated endometrial cancer in a Chinese population	6
Glioblastoma in adolescents and young adults: An age-based comparative study from Jordan over a 17-year period	6
Disparities in cancer care in individuals with severe mental illness: A narrative review	6
Risk of developing hypothyroidism with the use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors and immune checkpoint inhibitors	6
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients from Norway show elevated Epstein-Barr virus IgA and IgG antibodies prior to diagnosis	6
Geographic disparities of breast cancer incidence in Portugal at the district level: A spatial age-period-cohort analysis, 1998-2011	6
The association between microRNA polymorphisms and the risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A meta-analysis	6
Evaluation of a colorectal cancer screening program composed of successive waves of different tests: The experience of the French Calvados County	6
Regional differences in penile cancer patient characteristics and treatment rates across the United States	6
Characteristics and prognosis of young breast cancer patients treated in a public comprehensive cancer centre in Brazil: A retrospective cohort study	6
Health related quality of life in adult cancer survivors: Importance of social and emotional support	6
Factors associated with 5- and 10-year survival among a recent cohort of childhood cancer survivors (France, 2000–2015)	6
Beyond the urban-rural divide: Exploring spatial variations in breast cancer outcomes in Queensland, Australia	6
Increased risk of cancer mortality by smoking-induced aryl hydrocarbon receptor repressor DNA hypomethylation in Japanese population: A long-term cohort study	6
Programmed cell death ligand-1 expression and survival in a cohort of patients with non-small cell lung cancer receiving first-line through third-line therapy in Denmark	5
Tranexamic acid use is not associated with the risk of melanoma in Danish women: A nested case-control study using Danish health registries	5
Aggregation of melanoma tumour site within Western Australian families	5
Exploring the influence of rural residence on uptake of organized cancer screening – A systematic review of international literature	5

Fluconazole and levofloxacin prophylaxis are ineffective strategies for preventing infections in acute myeloid leukemia patients undergoing chemotherapy	5
Point of care tobacco treatment sustains during COVID-19, a global pandemic	5
Epidemiology of laryngeal cancer in Brazil: Historical data from 2000 to 2019	5
Geographic variation in diagnostic and treatment interval, cancer stage and mortality among colorectal patients – An international comparison between Denmark and Scotland using data-linked cohorts	5
Improving diagnostic strategies for ovarian cancer in Filipino women using ultrasound imaging and a multivariate index assay	5
Breast cancer incidence trends in Golestan, Iran: An age-period-cohort analysis by ethnic region, 2004-2018	5
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Employment outcomes among cancer patients in the United States	5
Social vulnerability among cancer patients and changes in vulnerability during their trajectories – A longitudinal population-based study	5
Adolescent and young adult cancers in India–Findings from the National Cancer Registry Programme	5
Response to comments on: “Maternal smoking and the risk of childhood brain tumors”	5
Unplanned cancer presentation in patients with psychiatric disorders: A nationwide register-based cohort study in Denmark	5
Sustainability and monitoring of the European Code Against Cancer: Recommendations	5
Response to shared decision making in prostate cancer screening: Different perspective of public health physicians and urologists	5
The interaction between systemic inflammatory markers and polygenic risk score in breast cancer risk: A cohort study in the UK Biobank	5
Editorial Board	5
Childhood leukemia near nuclear sites in Belgium: An ecological study at small geographical level	5
Sebaceous carcinoma in solid organ transplant recipients: The elegant path from epidemiology to etiology	5
Obituary: Valerie Beral (28 July 1946–27 August 2022)	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
Liver cancer in Saudi Arabia: A registry-based nationwide descriptive epidemiological and survival analysis	5
Heterogeneity in head and neck cancer incidence among black populations from Africa, the Caribbean and the USA: Analysis of cancer registry data by the AC3	5
Socioeconomic status and cancer survival in Brazil: Analysis of population data from the municipalities of Aracaju and Curitiba, 1996–2012	5
Title page / Editorial Board	5
Fasting plasma glucose and alanine aminotransferase on the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma: A nested case-control study	5
Hospital-based tobacco treatment for inpatients with a history of cancer	5
Evaluation of the impact of the European Code against Cancer on awareness and attitudes towards cancer prevention at the population and health promoters’ levels	5
A prospective study of pre-diagnostic circulating tryptophan and kynurenine, and the kynurenine/tryptophan ratio and risk of glioma	5
Association between cytomegalovirus infection and cancer‑related mortality in the US adults	5
Pre-diagnostic telomere length and colorectal cancer risk	5
International trends in the incidence of brain tumours in children and young-adults and their association with indicators of economic development	5
Health locus of control and symptom distress: The mediating role of illness acceptance and symptom severity in acute leukemia patients	5
Survival differences in non-seminoma testis cancer patients according to race/ethnicity	5
A systematic review of the barriers and facilitators influencing the cancer screening behaviour among people with intellectual disabilities	5
Sexual identity differences in biomarkers of tobacco exposure among women in a national sample	5
Socio-demographic inequalities in stage at diagnosis of lung cancer: A French population-based study	5
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