Herbert Yu

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1 Diagnostic markers for early detection of ovarian cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2008 6.47
2 Genome-wide association study identifies variants in the ABO locus associated with susceptibility to pancreatic cancer. Nat Genet 2009 5.14
3 A genome-wide association study identifies pancreatic cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 13q22.1, 1q32.1 and 5p15.33. Nat Genet 2010 4.89
4 Insulin, insulin-like growth factor-I, and risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. J Natl Cancer Inst 2008 3.73
5 Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer. Nat Genet 2012 3.69
6 Physicians' weight loss counseling in two public hospital primary care clinics. Acad Med 2004 2.94
7 Randomized controlled trial of aerobic exercise on insulin and insulin-like growth factors in breast cancer survivors: the Yale Exercise and Survivorship study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009 2.73
8 Hypermethylation of let-7a-3 in epithelial ovarian cancer is associated with low insulin-like growth factor-II expression and favorable prognosis. Cancer Res 2007 2.45
9 Insulin, insulin-like growth factor-I, endogenous estradiol, and risk of colorectal cancer in postmenopausal women. Cancer Res 2008 2.24
10 A KRAS-variant in ovarian cancer acts as a genetic marker of cancer risk. Cancer Res 2010 2.15
11 IGF-I and breast cancer: a meta-analysis. Int J Cancer 2004 2.03
12 Type I and II endometrial cancers: have they different risk factors? J Clin Oncol 2013 2.01
13 A prospective evaluation of insulin and insulin-like growth factor-I as risk factors for endometrial cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2008 2.01
14 High miR-21 expression in breast cancer associated with poor disease-free survival in early stage disease and high TGF-beta1. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2008 1.86
15 Association of large noncoding RNA HOTAIR expression and its downstream intergenic CpG island methylation with survival in breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2012 1.60
16 Detectable Symptomatology Preceding the Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer and Absolute Risk of Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis. Am J Epidemiol 2015 1.58
17 ABO blood group, Helicobacter pylori seropositivity, and risk of pancreatic cancer: a case-control study. J Natl Cancer Inst 2010 1.54
18 Short tandem repeat polymorphism and cancer risk: influence of laboratory analysis on epidemiologic findings. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2004 1.49
19 Obesity and risk of ovarian cancer subtypes: evidence from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. Endocr Relat Cancer 2013 1.47
20 Prevalence of overweight, obesity, and associated diseases among outpatients in a public hospital. South Med J 2003 1.44
21 Exercise improves body fat, lean mass, and bone mass in breast cancer survivors. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2009 1.41
22 Pluripotent factor lin-28 and its homologue lin-28b in epithelial ovarian cancer and their associations with disease outcomes and expression of let-7a and IGF-II. Eur J Cancer 2009 1.41
23 Improved survival in surgical stage I patients with uterine papillary serous carcinoma (UPSC) treated with adjuvant platinum-based chemotherapy. Gynecol Oncol 2005 1.40
24 Association between Echinococcus granulosus infection and cancer risk - a pilot study in Cyprus. Clin Chem Lab Med 2016 1.39
25 Neoadjuvant chemotherapy lessens surgical morbidity in advanced ovarian cancer and leads to improved survival in stage IV disease. Gynecol Oncol 2007 1.37
26 An absolute risk model to identify individuals at elevated risk for pancreatic cancer in the general population. PLoS One 2013 1.33
27 Aberrant promoter methylation of multiple genes in malignant ovarian tumors and in ovarian tumors with low malignant potential. Cancer 2006 1.24
28 Exercise and quality of life during and after treatment for breast cancer: results of two randomized controlled trials. Psychooncology 2009 1.21
29 Pathway analysis of genome-wide association study data highlights pancreatic development genes as susceptibility factors for pancreatic cancer. Carcinogenesis 2012 1.20
30 Joint effect of estrogen receptor beta sequence variants and endogenous estrogen exposure on breast cancer risk in Chinese women. Cancer Res 2003 1.19
31 Recruiting and retaining breast cancer survivors into a randomized controlled exercise trial: the Yale Exercise and Survivorship Study. Cancer 2008 1.16
32 Elucidating the landscape of aberrant DNA methylation in hepatocellular carcinoma. PLoS One 2013 1.15
33 ABO blood group and risk of pancreatic cancer: a study in Shanghai and meta-analysis. Am J Epidemiol 2013 1.14
34 Association of genetic polymorphisms in DNA repair pathway genes with non-small cell lung cancer risk. Lung Cancer 2010 1.13
35 Adipokine genes and prostate cancer risk. Int J Cancer 2009 1.10
36 ERCC1 genotype and phenotype in epithelial ovarian cancer identify patients likely to benefit from paclitaxel treatment in addition to platinum-based therapy. J Clin Oncol 2007 1.10
37 Genetic polymorphisms and treatment response in advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Lung Cancer 2007 1.07
38 Relation of serum insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and IGF binding protein-3 to risk of prostate cancer (United States). Cancer Causes Control 2003 1.07
39 Testing the proportional hazards assumption in case-cohort analysis. BMC Med Res Methodol 2013 1.07
40 Genetic polymorphisms in the IGFBP3 gene: association with breast cancer risk and blood IGFBP-3 protein levels among Chinese women. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2004 1.06
41 Racial differences in the association between body mass index and serum IGF1, IGF2, and IGFBP3. Endocr Relat Cancer 2010 1.06
42 Correlation of blood sex steroid hormones with body size, body fat distribution, and other known risk factors for breast cancer in post-menopausal Chinese women. Cancer Causes Control 2004 1.05
43 Global burden of cancer. Yale J Biol Med 2006 1.05
44 Prospective study of eukaryotic initiation factor 4E protein elevation and breast cancer outcome. Ann Surg 2002 1.04
45 Long-term overweight and weight gain in early adulthood in association with risk of endometrial cancer. Int J Cancer 2011 1.03
46 Klotho expression in epithelial ovarian cancer and its association with insulin-like growth factors and disease progression. Cancer Invest 2008 1.03
47 Endometrial glandular dysplasia: a newly defined precursor lesion of uterine papillary serous carcinoma. Part I: morphologic features. Int J Surg Pathol 2004 1.02
48 Genome-wide association study identifies a possible susceptibility locus for endometrial cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2012 1.02
49 Promoter-specific transcription of insulin-like growth factor-II in epithelial ovarian cancer. Gynecol Oncol 2006 1.01
50 Green tea drinking and risk of pancreatic cancer: a large-scale, population-based case-control study in urban Shanghai. Cancer Epidemiol 2012 1.00
51 A prospective trial on initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) overexpression and cancer recurrence in node-positive breast cancer. Ann Surg 2005 1.00
52 High eIF4E, VEGF, and microvessel density in stage I to III breast cancer. Ann Surg 2006 1.00
53 Stathmin and tubulin expression and survival of ovarian cancer patients receiving platinum treatment with and without paclitaxel. Cancer 2009 0.99
54 IGF-I in epithelial ovarian cancer and its role in disease progression. Growth Factors 2007 0.99
55 Telomerase expression and telomere length in breast cancer and their associations with adjuvant treatment and disease outcome. Breast Cancer Res 2011 0.98
56 Plasma metabolite biomarkers for the detection of pancreatic cancer. J Proteome Res 2014 0.97
57 Urinary phytoestrogen excretion and breast cancer risk: evaluating potential effect modifiers endogenous estrogens and anthropometrics. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 0.96
58 Reduced allergy and immunoglobulin E among adults with intracranial meningioma compared to controls. Int J Cancer 2011 0.96
59 Age at last birth in relation to risk of endometrial cancer: pooled analysis in the epidemiology of endometrial cancer consortium. Am J Epidemiol 2012 0.95
60 The relationship of insulin-like growth factor-II, insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3, and estrogen receptor-alpha expression to disease progression in epithelial ovarian cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2006 0.95
61 Prognostic implications for high expression of MiR-25 in lung adenocarcinomas of female non-smokers. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2014 0.94
62 Genome-wide association study of endometrial cancer in E2C2. Hum Genet 2013 0.93
63 Functional study of risk loci of stem cell-associated gene lin-28B and associations with disease survival outcomes in epithelial ovarian cancer. Carcinogenesis 2012 0.93
64 The circadian gene NPAS2 is a novel prognostic biomarker for breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2009 0.93
65 Insulin-like growth factor-I gene polymorphism and breast cancer risk in Chinese women. Int J Cancer 2005 0.92
66 Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) is an effective way of managing elderly women with advanced stage ovarian cancer (FIGO Stage IIIC and IV). J Surg Oncol 2012 0.91
67 Physical activity and breast cancer survival: an epigenetic link through reduced methylation of a tumor suppressor gene L3MBTL1. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2011 0.91
68 MicroRNA let-7a: a potential marker for selection of paclitaxel in ovarian cancer management. Gynecol Oncol 2011 0.90
69 An insulin-like growth factor-II intronic variant affects local DNA conformation and ovarian cancer survival. Carcinogenesis 2013 0.90
70 Circulating microRNAs in relation to EGFR status and survival of lung adenocarcinoma in female non-smokers. PLoS One 2013 0.90
71 Effect of exercise on markers of inflammation in breast cancer survivors: the Yale exercise and survivorship study. Cancer Prev Res (Phila) 2012 0.89
72 Let-7a regulation of insulin-like growth factors in breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2010 0.89
73 Specimen processing time and measurement of total insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), free IGF-I, and IGF binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3). Growth Horm IGF Res 2006 0.89
74 Omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acid intakes and endometrial cancer risk in a population-based case-control study. Eur J Nutr 2012 0.89
75 Insulin-like growth factor axis and oncogenic human papillomavirus natural history. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2008 0.88
76 Meta-Analysis of the Association between Mir-196a-2 Polymorphism and Cancer Susceptibility. Cancer Biol Med 2012 0.88
77 Non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in patients with metabolic syndrome. J Investig Med 2008 0.88
78 Helicobacter pylori seropositivities and risk of pancreatic carcinoma. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2013 0.87
79 The insulin-like growth factor axis and risk of liver disease in hepatitis C virus/HIV-co-infected women. AIDS 2008 0.87
80 Evaluation of the synergistic effect of insulin resistance and insulin-like growth factors on the risk of breast carcinoma. Cancer 2004 0.87
81 Feasibility of institutional registry-based recruitment for enrolling newly diagnosed breast cancer patients in an exercise trial. J Phys Act Health 2011 0.86
82 Genotypes and phenotypes of IGF-I and IGFBP-3 in breast tumors among Chinese women. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2011 0.86
83 TLK1B is elevated with eIF4E overexpression in breast cancer. J Surg Res 2004 0.85
84 Associations of insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I and IGF-binding protein-3 with HIV disease progression in women. J Infect Dis 2008 0.85
85 Physical activity and endometrial cancer in a population-based case-control study. Cancer Causes Control 2010 0.85
86 Glutathione S-transferase polymorphisms and survival in African-American and white colorectal cancer patients. Cancer Epidemiol 2009 0.84
87 Energy balance, insulin resistance biomarkers, and breast cancer risk. Cancer Detect Prev 2007 0.84
88 Peptide concentrations and mRNA expression of IGF-I, IGF-II and IGFBP-3 in breast cancer and their associations with disease characteristics. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2008 0.84
89 Favorable outcome associated with an IGF-1 ligand signature in breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2012 0.83
90 Intrauterine devices and endometrial cancer risk: a pooled analysis of the Epidemiology of Endometrial Cancer Consortium. Int J Cancer 2014 0.82
91 Tipping the scales: the effect of literacy on obese patients' knowledge and readiness to lose weight. South Med J 2005 0.81
92 Expression of MDR1 in epithelial ovarian cancer and its association with disease progression. Oncol Res 2007 0.81
93 Insulin-like growth factor-I, soy protein intake, and breast cancer risk. Nutr Cancer 2004 0.81
94 PDCD6 is an independent predictor of progression free survival in epithelial ovarian cancer. J Transl Med 2012 0.81
95 Polymorphisms in inflammation pathway genes and endometrial cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2012 0.81
96 Up-regulation of TLK1B by eIF4E overexpression predicts cancer recurrence in irradiated patients with breast cancer. Surgery 2006 0.81
97 Ovarian preservation and staging in reproductive-age endometrial cancer patients. Gynecol Oncol 2009 0.81
98 Genetic effects and modifiers of radiotherapy and chemotherapy on survival in pancreatic cancer. Pancreas 2011 0.80
99 Number of aberrant crypt foci associated with adiposity and IGF1 bioavailability. Cancer Causes Control 2008 0.80
100 IGF-II promoter specific methylation and expression in epithelial ovarian cancer and their associations with disease characteristics. Oncol Rep 2011 0.79
101 Re-evaluation of ABO gene polymorphisms detected in a genome-wide association study and risk of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in a Chinese population. Chin J Cancer 2013 0.79
102 Polymorphisms in genes related to one-carbon metabolism are not related to pancreatic cancer in PanScan and PanC4. Cancer Causes Control 2013 0.78
103 Effect of exercise on metabolic syndrome variables in breast cancer survivors. Int J Endocrinol 2013 0.78
104 Clear cell cancer of the uterine corpus: the association of clinicopathologic parameters and treatment on disease progression. J Oncol 2011 0.77
105 DNA Repair Gene Polymorphisms in Relation to Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Survival. Cell Physiol Biochem 2015 0.77
106 Risk Factors for Early-Onset and Very-Early-Onset Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: A Pancreatic Cancer Case-Control Consortium (PanC4) Analysis. Pancreas 2016 0.76
107 Genotyping of stathmin and its association with clinical factors and survival in patients with ovarian cancer. Oncol Lett 2013 0.76
108 Dietary energy density is positively associated with risk of pancreatic cancer in urban Shanghai Chinese. J Nutr 2013 0.76
109 Menstrual and Reproductive Factors, Hormone Use, and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer: Analysis From the International Pancreatic Cancer Case-Control Consortium (PanC4). Pancreas 2016 0.75
110 Risch et al. Respond to "Clinical Utility of Prediction Models for Rare Outcomes: The Example of Pancreatic Cancer". Am J Epidemiol 2015 0.75
111 Insulin resistance-related gene polymorphisms and risk of prostate cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2007 0.75
112 Disease risk estimation by combining case-control data with aggregated information on the population at risk. Biometrics 2014 0.75
113 Cigarette smoking shortens the survival of patients with low-risk myelodysplastic syndromes. Cancer Causes Control 2011 0.75
114 Correction: vitamin d metabolic pathway genes and pancreatic cancer risk. PLoS One 2015 0.75
115 Breastfeeding and Endometrial Cancer Risk: An Analysis From the Epidemiology of Endometrial Cancer Consortium. Obstet Gynecol 2017 0.75