The changing global patterns of female breast cancer incidence and mortality

Cancer Incidence in Five Continents

1970 • 8,763 citations

Cancer Incidence in Five Continents

1966 • 5,960 citations

Tamoxifen for early breast cancer: an overview of the randomised trials

1998 • 4,082 citations

Cancer incidence, mortality and prevalence worldwide

2004 • 3,893 citations

Breast cancer and hormone-replacement therapy in the Million Women Study

2003 • 2,896 citations

Environmental factors and cancer incidence and mortality in different countries, with special reference to dietary practices

1975 • 2,207 citations

Polychemotherapy for early breast cancer: an overview of the randomised trials. Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group.

1998 • 2,199 citations

Globocan 2000 : cancer incidence, mortality and prevalence worldwide

2001 • 1,504 citations

Breast cancer and hormonal contraceptives: collaborative reanalysis of individual data on 53 297 women with breast cancer and 100 239 women without breast cancer from 54 epidemiological studies

1996 • 1,374 citations

Breast cancer and hormone-replacement therapy: the Million Women Study

2003 • 1,197 citations

Migration Patterns and Breast Cancer Risk in Asian-American Women

1993 • 1,100 citations

Alcohol, tobacco and breast cancer – collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 53 epidemiological studies, including 58 515 women with breast cancer and 95 067 women without the disease

2002 • 1,016 citations

Overview of the main outcomes in breast-cancer prevention trials

2003 • 941 citations

Ovarian cancer and hormone replacement therapy in the Million Women Study

2007 • 930 citations

Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2000, Featuring the Uses of Surveillance Data for Cancer Prevention and Control

2003 • 875 citations

Trends in Cancer Incidence, Survival and Mortality

2009 • 785 citations

Overweight as an avoidable cause of cancer in Europe

2001 • 755 citations

UPDATE OF THE SWEDISH TWO-COUNTY PROGRAM OF MAMMOGRAPHIC SCREENING FOR BREAST CANCER

1992 • 744 citations

Estrogens as a cause of human cancer: the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation award lecture.

1988 • 703 citations

Estimates of cancer incidence and mortality in Europe in 1995

2002 • 695 citations

Cohort Studies of Fat Intake and the Risk of Breast Cancer — A Pooled Analysis

1996 • 673 citations

‘Hormonal’ risk factors, ‘breast tissue age’ and the age-incidence of breast cancer

1983 • 670 citations

Tamoxifen for early breast cancer: an overview of the randomised trials. Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group.

1998 • 602 citations

EUROCARE-3 summary: cancer survival in Europe at the end of the 20th century

2003 • 478 citations

Recent Trends in U.S. Breast Cancer Incidence, Survival, and Mortality Rates

1996 • 437 citations

Trends in cancer incidence and mortality

1994 • 427 citations

Effect of NHS breast screening programme on mortality from breast cancer in England and Wales, 1990-8: comparison of observed with predicted mortality

2000 • 386 citations

INTEREST IN DETERMINING THE CD34+ CD38- PHENOTYPE IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS OF ACUTE LEUKEMIA IN ABIDJAN – CÔTE D’IVOIRE

2013 • 368 citations

True

2000 • 348 citations

Types of dietary fat and breast cancer: A pooled analysis of cohort studies

2001 • 283 citations

Incidence of breast cancer in Norway and Sweden during introduction of nationwide screening: prospective cohort study

2004 • 282 citations

Cancer in Africa : epidemiology and prevention

2003 • 278 citations

ESTIMATION OF THE DURATION OF A PRE-CLINICAL DISEASE STATE USING SCREENING DATA

1983 • 263 citations

Time trends in cancer mortality in China: 1987–1999

2003 • 262 citations

Breast cancer incidence and mortality trends in 16 European countries

2003 • 261 citations

Breast cancer screening programmes in 22 countries: current policies, administration and guidelines. International Breast Cancer Screening Network (IBSN) and the European Network of Pilot Projects for Breast Cancer Screening

1998 • 250 citations

Recent trends in breast cancer incidence and mortality

2002 • 243 citations

Body size in different periods of life and breast cancer risk in post‐menopausal women

1998 • 225 citations

Why is breast-cancer mortality declining?

2003 • 222 citations

Cancer survival in developing countries

1998 • 194 citations

Changes in incidence of and mortality from breast cancer in England and Wales since introduction of screening

1995 • 182 citations

Body size in different periods of life and breast cancer risk in post-menopausal women

1998 • 182 citations

Effectiveness of the public health policy for breast cancer screening in Finland: population based cohort study

1997 • 164 citations

American Society of Clinical Oncology Technology Assessment on Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Strategies: Tamoxifen and Raloxifene

1999 • 163 citations

Benefits from specialised cancer care

1996 • 161 citations

An overview of cancer survival in developing countries.

1998 • 150 citations

Cancer incidence in the African population of Harare, Zimbabwe: Second results from the cancer registry 1993–1995

2000 • 147 citations

Explaining the Relation Between Education and Postmenopausal Breast Cancer

1997 • 136 citations

The increase of female breast cancer incidence in Japan: Emergence of birth cohort effect

2004 • 130 citations

Breast Cancer in Singapore: Trends in Incidence 1968–1992

1996 • 130 citations

Lifestyle changes during adolescence and risk of breast cancer: an ecologic study of the effect of World War II in Norway

1996 • 118 citations

Trends in breast cancer incidence in Hong Kong between 1973 and 1999: an age-period-cohort analysis

2002 • 116 citations

Effect of Age on Incidence of Breast Cancer in Females2

1979 • 114 citations

Breast cancer mortality rates are levelling off or beginning to decline in many western countries: analysis of time trends, age-cohort and age-period models of breast cancer mortality in 20 countries

1996 • 111 citations

A Further Report on Cancer of the Breast with Special Reference to its Associated Antecedent Conditions.

1926 • 111 citations

Cancer incidence in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

2000 • 109 citations

Aromatase Inhibitors in Prevention — Data from the ATAC (Arimidex, Tamoxifen Alone or in Combination) Trial and the Design of IBIS-II (the Second International Breast Cancer Intervention Study)

2003 • 87 citations

Birth Cohort and Calendar Period Trends in Breast Cancer Mortality in the United States and Canada

1997 • 82 citations

Cancer in developing countries.

1994 • 77 citations

Trends in female breast cancer in Connecticut and the United States

1991 • 74 citations

An epidemiological assessment of increasing incidence and trends in breast cancer in Mumbai and other sites in India, during the last two decades.

2003 • 73 citations

Trends in the incidence rate and risk factors for breast cancer in Japan

1997 • 72 citations

Are there socioeconomic gradients in stage and grade of breast cancer at diagnosis? Cross sectional analysis of UK cancer registry data

2004 • 65 citations

Epidemiology of Breast Cancer in Japan

1995 • 57 citations

Breast cancer in New South Wales in 1972-1995: Tumor size and the impact of mammographic screening

1999 • 51 citations

Are increases in mammographic screening still a valid explanation for trends in breast cancer incidence in the United States?

1995 • 48 citations

TEMPORAL TRENDS IN BREAST CANCER

1982 • 48 citations

Breast cancer in East Anglia: the impact of the breast screening programme on stage at diagnosis

1998 • 46 citations

Age-period-cohort modelling of breast cancer incidence in the Nordic countries

2000 • 37 citations

Trends in breast cancer incidence and mortality in Denmark, 1943–1982

1988 • 36 citations

Breast cancer mortality trends in Australia: 1921 to 1994

1998 • 35 citations

Trends in breast cancer incidence in Sweden 1958-1988 by time period and birth cohort

1993 • 35 citations

Breast Cancer Death Rates Decline for White Women

1995 • 33 citations

Age-period-cohort analysis of breast cancer mortality.

1995 • 31 citations

Cancer mortality among Polish migrants to Australia

1994 • 28 citations

Future possibilities in the prevention of breast cancer: Role of genetic variation in breast cancer prevention

2000 • 27 citations

9 Breast Cancer Screening

2002 • 25 citations

Evaluation of the organised mammographic screening programme in Australia

2003 • 22 citations

Recent trends in breast cancer incidence in Sweden

1998 • 21 citations

Breast cancer in New Zealand: trends, patterns, and data quality.

1996 • 20 citations

Prophylactic mastectomy: the Rotterdam experience

2003 • 18 citations

Cancer in Italian migrant populations. Summary of the results by site.

1993 • 16 citations

Incidence of cancer of the lung stomach, breast, and cervix in the USSR: pattern and trends

1990 • 15 citations

Trends in breast cancer mortality among Swedish women 1953-92: analyses by age, period and birth cohort

1995 • 15 citations

Is the peak in breast cancer incidence in sight? A study conducted in the southeastern Netherlands

1994 • 11 citations