Published in Am J Public Health on March 01, 1981
Extent of surgery affects survival for papillary thyroid cancer. Ann Surg (2007) 4.73
Socioeconomic differentials in mortality risk among men screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial: I. White men. Am J Public Health (1996) 4.35
Influence of pre- and postdiagnosis physical activity on mortality in breast cancer survivors: the health, eating, activity, and lifestyle study. J Clin Oncol (2008) 2.85
Improved estimates of cancer-specific survival rates from population-based data. J Natl Cancer Inst (2010) 2.59
Malignant mesothelioma: facts, myths, and hypotheses. J Cell Physiol (2012) 2.56
Predicting Life Expectancy in Men Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol (2015) 2.29
Trends in relative survival for ovarian cancer from 1975 to 2011. Obstet Gynecol (2015) 2.22
The quality and utility of death certificate data. Am J Public Health (1981) 2.15
Improving cause-of-death statistics. Am J Public Health (1989) 2.07
Lung cancer in railroad workers exposed to diesel exhaust. Environ Health Perspect (2004) 2.06
Declining death rates reflect progress against cancer. PLoS One (2010) 1.91
Trends in survival over the past two decades among white and black patients with newly diagnosed stage IV breast cancer. J Clin Oncol (2008) 1.88
How accurate are Scottish cancer registration data? Br J Cancer (1994) 1.85
On the distribution of underlying causes of death. Am J Public Health (1982) 1.84
Estimates and projections of value of life lost from cancer deaths in the United States. J Natl Cancer Inst (2008) 1.83
Lymph node ratio as a prognostic factor in elderly patients with pathological N1 non-small cell lung cancer. Thorax (2010) 1.80
Screening for prostate cancer: estimating the magnitude of overdetection. CMAJ (1998) 1.77
Causes of death in long-term survivors of head and neck cancer. Cancer (2014) 1.68
Fasting C-peptide levels and death resulting from all causes and breast cancer: the health, eating, activity, and lifestyle study. J Clin Oncol (2010) 1.66
Quality of death certificates in Valencia, Spain. Am J Public Health (1989) 1.63
Uses of data to plan cancer prevention and control programs. Public Health Rep (1990) 1.62
Update of the Texaco mortality study 1947-93: Part II. Analyses of specific causes of death for white men employed in refining, research, and petrochemicals. Occup Environ Med (1999) 1.61
Cancer and other causes of death among a cohort of dry cleaners. Br J Ind Med (1990) 1.56
Mortality from lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in New Mexico, 1958-82. Am J Public Health (1988) 1.56
Racial disparities in stage-specific colorectal cancer mortality: 1960-2005. Am J Public Health (2010) 1.51
An evaluation of external cause-of-injury codes using hospital records from the Indian Health Service, 1985. Am J Public Health (1990) 1.50
Is the Armadale epidemic over? Air pollution and mortality from lung cancer and other diseases, 1961-82. Br J Ind Med (1985) 1.49
Mortality and cancer incidence of aircraft maintenance workers exposed to trichloroethylene and other organic solvents and chemicals: extended follow up. Occup Environ Med (1998) 1.46
Family history is a significant risk factor for pancreatic cancer: results from a systematic review and meta-analysis. Fam Cancer (2008) 1.36
The number of lymph node metastases as a prognostic factor in patients with N1 non-small cell lung cancer. Chest (2011) 1.35
What the vital statistics system can and cannot do. Am J Public Health (1984) 1.33
An analysis of occupational risks for brain cancer. Am J Public Health (1990) 1.31
Assessing non-cancer-related health status of US cancer patients: other-cause survival and comorbidity prevalence. Am J Epidemiol (2013) 1.29
Physical activity on the job and cancer in Missouri. Am J Public Health (1991) 1.26
The impact on colorectal cancer survival of cases registered by 'death certificate only': implications for national survival rates. Br J Cancer (1994) 1.24
Ill-defined and multiple causes on death certificates--a study of misclassification in mortality statistics. Eur J Epidemiol (1999) 1.24
Geographic disparities in colorectal cancer survival. Int J Health Geogr (2009) 1.21
Retrospective cohort mortality study of workers at an aircraft maintenance facility. I. Epidemiological results. Br J Ind Med (1991) 1.20
Surveillance of sentinel occupational mortality in the District of Columbia: 1980 to 1987. Am J Public Health (1992) 1.20
Mortality among aircraft manufacturing workers. Occup Environ Med (1999) 1.18
Geographic variation in colorectal cancer survival and the role of small-area socioeconomic deprivation: a multilevel survival analysis of the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study Cohort. Am J Epidemiol (2011) 1.16
Why are a quarter of all cancer deaths in south-east England registered by death certificate only? Factors related to death certificate only registrations in the Thames Cancer Registry between 1987 and 1989. Br J Cancer (1995) 1.15
Drowning surveillance: how well do E codes identify submersion fatalities. Inj Prev (1998) 1.15
The National Lung Screening Trial's Endpoint Verification Process: determining the cause of death. Contemp Clin Trials (2011) 1.14
Conditional survival of cancer patients: an Australian perspective. BMC Cancer (2012) 1.14
Sentinel Health Events (Occupational): analysis of death certificates among residents of Nassau County, NY between 1980-82 for occupationally related causes of death. Am J Public Health (1990) 1.13
Early and late mortality after diagnosis of wilms tumor. J Clin Oncol (2009) 1.12
A case-control study of pancreatic cancer and cigarettes, alcohol, coffee and diet. Am J Public Health (1989) 1.12
Measuring social class differences in cancer patient survival: is it necessary to control for social class differences in general population mortality? A Finnish population-based study. J Epidemiol Community Health (1998) 1.11
Oesophageal and gastric cancer in Scotland 1960-90. Br J Cancer (1995) 1.09
Cervical cancer incidence and mortality in New Mexico's Hispanics, American Indians, and non-Hispanic whites. West J Med (1992) 1.06
The accuracy of liver cancer as the underlying cause of death on death certificates. Public Health Rep (1990) 1.06
Validation of the lymph node ratio as a prognostic factor in patients with N1 nonsmall cell lung cancer. Cancer (2011) 1.06
Providing clinicians and patients with actual prognosis: cancer in the context of competing causes of death. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr (2014) 1.05
Risk of breast cancer mortality among women cohabiting with same sex partners: findings from the National Health Interview Survey, 1997-2003. J Womens Health (Larchmt) (2012) 1.05
Racial disparity in death from colorectal cancer: does vitamin D deficiency contribute? Cancer (2010) 1.04
B-vitamin intake, one-carbon metabolism, and survival in a population-based study of women with breast cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev (2008) 1.04
Competing causes of death for women with breast cancer and change over time from 1975 to 2003. Am J Clin Oncol (2008) 1.03
Should cause of death from the death certificate be used to examine cancer-specific survival? A study of patients with distant stage disease. Cancer Invest (2010) 1.03
Estimating breast cancer-specific and other-cause mortality in clinical trial and population-based cancer registry cohorts. Cancer (2009) 1.02
The impact of PSA screening on prostate cancer mortality and overdiagnosis of prostate cancer in the United States. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci (2012) 1.01
Trends of skin cancer in the Canton of Vaud, 1976-92. Br J Cancer (1995) 1.00
Disparities in survival after Hodgkin lymphoma: a population-based study. Cancer Causes Control (2009) 1.00
Mortality among US and UK veterans of the Persian Gulf War: a review. Occup Environ Med (2002) 0.99
Practical limitations of epidemiologic methods. Environ Health Perspect (1983) 0.98
Mortality among pesticide applicators exposed to chlorpyrifos in the Agricultural Health Study. Environ Health Perspect (2007) 0.97
Cancer mortality risk among military participants of a 1958 atmospheric nuclear weapons test. Am J Public Health (1995) 0.97
Kidney cancer and hydrocarbon exposures among petroleum refinery workers. Environ Health Perspect (1993) 0.96
Occupational risk factors for female breast cancer: a review. Occup Environ Med (1996) 0.94
Misclassification of coronary heart disease in mortality statistics. Evidence from the WHO-MONICA Ghent-Charleroi Study in Belgium. J Epidemiol Community Health (1998) 0.94
Temporal trends in geographic disparities in small-area-level colorectal cancer incidence and mortality in the United States. Cancer Causes Control (2011) 0.93
Assessing the utility of cancer-registry-processed cause of death in calculating cancer-specific survival. Cancer (2013) 0.93
Mortality in US Army Gulf War veterans exposed to 1991 Khamisiyah chemical munitions destruction. Am J Public Health (2005) 0.93
Prostate cancer treatment and ten-year survival among group/staff HMO and fee-for-service Medicare patients. Health Serv Res (1999) 0.92
Modelling population-based cancer survival trends using join point models for grouped survival data. J R Stat Soc Ser A Stat Soc (2009) 0.91
Longitudinal associations of blood markers of insulin and glucose metabolism and cancer mortality in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Cancer Causes Control (2010) 0.90
Rectal cancer and exposure to metalworking fluids in the automobile manufacturing industry. Occup Environ Med (2006) 0.90
Use of death certificates for mesothelioma surveillance. Public Health Rep (1992) 0.89
Peanut consumption and reduced risk of colorectal cancer in women: a prospective study in Taiwan. World J Gastroenterol (2006) 0.89
Limitations of the death certificate only index as a measure of incompleteness of cancer registration. Br J Cancer (1995) 0.89
Primary liver cancer mortality and incidence in Texas Mexican Americans, 1969-80. Am J Public Health (1987) 0.88
Breast cancer mortality in Appalachia: reversing patterns of disparity over time. J Health Care Poor Underserved (2012) 0.88
A comparison of two surveillance systems for deaths related to violent injury. Inj Prev (2005) 0.87
Clinical features of hematopoietic malignancies and related disorders among benzene-exposed workers in China. Benzene Study Group. Environ Health Perspect (1996) 0.87
An assessment of potential injury surveillance data sources in Alaska using an emerging problem: all-terrain vehicle-associated injuries. Public Health Rep (1989) 0.86
Occupation as a risk identifier for breast cancer. Am J Public Health (1993) 0.85
Uterine cancers of unspecified origin--a reassessment. Public Health Rep (1983) 0.85
Accuracy of Death Certificates and Assessment of Factors for Misclassification of Underlying Cause of Death. J Epidemiol (2015) 0.84
Accounting for outcome misclassification in estimates of the effect of occupational asbestos exposure on lung cancer death. Am J Epidemiol (2013) 0.84
A nested case-control study of kidney cancer among refinery/petrochemical workers. Environ Health Perspect (1996) 0.83
Assessment of health effects in epidemiologic studies of air pollution. Environ Health Perspect (1993) 0.83
Cancer mortality and oil production in the Amazon Region of Ecuador, 1990-2005. Int Arch Occup Environ Health (2008) 0.83
Assessment of 1,3-butadiene epidemiology studies. Environ Health Perspect (1990) 0.83
The contribution of smoking to black-white differences in U.S. mortality. Demography (2013) 0.82
Population-level trends in relative survival for cervical cancer. Am J Obstet Gynecol (2015) 0.82
Unexplained inversion of the incidence ratio of colon and rectal cancer among men in East Germany. A time trend analysis including 147,790 cases. Eur J Epidemiol (2007) 0.81
Healthcare utilization and mortality among veterans of the Gulf War. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2006) 0.81
Accuracy of cause of death data routinely recorded in a population-based cancer registry: impact on cause-specific survival and validation using the Geneva Cancer Registry. BMC Cancer (2013) 0.80
Future directions in epidemiologic studies of 1,3-butadiene-exposed workers. Environ Health Perspect (1990) 0.80
Accuracy of cause-of-death statements on death certificates. Public Health Rep (1955) 8.43
Inquiry into diagnostic evidence supporting medical certifications of death. Am J Public Health Nations Health (1958) 7.17
Comparison of the coding of death certificates related to cancer in seven countries. Public Health Rep (1978) 3.30
Accuracy of diagnosis of cancer among autopsy cases: JNIH--ABCC population for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Gan (1976) 3.20
Comparison of the coding of death certificates related to cancer in seven countries. Public Health Rep (1978) 3.30
Variability and classification accuracy of serial high-sensitivity C-reactive protein measurements in healthy adults. Clin Chem (2001) 3.12
Effect of physician-delivered nutrition counseling training and an office-support program on saturated fat intake, weight, and serum lipid measurements in a hyperlipidemic population: Worcester Area Trial for Counseling in Hyperlipidemia (WATCH). Arch Intern Med (1999) 2.35
Obesity among Navajo adolescents. Relationship to dietary intake and blood pressure. Am J Dis Child (1992) 2.30
Gene isolation by screening lambda gt11 libraries with antibodies. Methods Enzymol (1987) 2.20
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among people with AIDS: incidence, presentation and public health burden. AIDS/Cancer Study Group. Int J Cancer (1997) 1.82
Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. Application of the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O) to the Working Formulation. Cancer (1984) 1.27
Cancer registration: principles and methods. Classification and coding of neoplasms. IARC Sci Publ (1991) 1.12
Reporting of cancer of the lung, liver and uterus. Cancer (1967) 1.11
Protection of SIVmac-infected macaque monkeys against superinfection by a simian immunodeficiency virus expressing envelope glycoproteins of HIV type 1. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses (1997) 1.07
Prevalence of diabetes in a Navajo Indian community. Am J Public Health (1989) 0.98
High viral load and CD4 lymphopenia in rhesus and cynomolgus macaques infected by a chimeric primate lentivirus constructed using the env, rev, tat, and vpu genes from HIV-1 Lai. Virology (1996) 0.97
Impact of diagnosis of diabetes on health-related quality of life among high risk individuals: the Diabetes Prevention Program outcomes study. Qual Life Res (2013) 0.96
Immunodetection of PrPSc in spleens of some scrapie-infected sheep but not BSE-infected cows. J Gen Virol (1997) 0.94
Is brain cancer mortality increasing in industrial countries? Am J Ind Med (1991) 0.92
Facial pattern differences in long-faced children and adults. Am J Orthod (1984) 0.89
Is brain cancer mortality increasing in industrial countries? Ann N Y Acad Sci (1990) 0.89
Detection of uterine cancer. Results of a community program of 17 years. Cancer (1968) 0.88
Detection of uterine cancer. High and low risk groups. Cancer (1968) 0.88
Surveillance, epidemiology, and end results lung cancer data applied to the World Health Organization's classifications of lung tumors. J Natl Cancer Inst (1983) 0.84
One-round determination of seven leukocyte subsets in rhesus macaque blood by flow cytometry. Cytometry (2000) 0.83
Implication of the C-terminal domain of nef protein in the reversion to pathogenicity of attenuated SIVmacBK28-41 in macaques. Virology (2000) 0.82
Properties of a chimeric simian-human immunodeficiency virus expressing an hybrid HIV-1 Nef/SIVmac Nef protein. Arch Virol (2002) 0.79
Diagnostic techniques and tumor classification. Hum Pathol (1984) 0.76
Cancer data systems. Curr Probl Cancer (1985) 0.76
Identifying mesotheliomas on death certificates. Public Health Rep (1986) 0.75
Apparent changes in cancer mortality, 1968. A study of the effects of the introduction of the Eighth Revision International Classification of Diseases. Public Health Rep (1974) 0.75
A multi-city community based smoking research intervention project in the african-american populatio. Int Q Community Health Educ (1997) 0.75
Comparison of visual estimate with digital caliper measurement of coronary artery stenosis. Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn (1987) 0.75
Cancer incidence rates in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. Tex Med (1975) 0.75
Improved perioperative care in major orthopaedic surgery: preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative contributions. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand Suppl (1997) 0.75
Working with parents of handicapped children: a statewide approach. Child Today (1976) 0.75