International comparisons of survival from lung cancer: pitfalls and warnings

Clinical and Biological Features Associated With Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Gene Mutations in Lung Cancers

2005 • 2,285 citations

Survival of Patients with Stage I Lung Cancer Detected on CT Screening

2006 • 1,623 citations

The Will Rogers Phenomenon

1985 • 1,512 citations

Racial Differences in the Treatment of Early-Stage Lung Cancer

1999 • 991 citations

International lung cancer trends by histologic type: Male:Female differences diminishing and adenocarcinoma rates rising

2005 • 740 citations

A Genomic Strategy to Refine Prognosis in Early-Stage Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

2006 • 573 citations

Trends in cancer incidence and mortality in Scotland: description and possible explanations

1998 • 534 citations

Lung Cancer Mortality in the Mayo Lung Project: Impact of Extended Follow-up

2000 • 533 citations

Cancer Survival Among US Whites and Minorities

2002 • 533 citations

Trends and socioeconomic inequalities in cancer survival in England and Wales up to 2001

2004 • 364 citations

Prognostic impact of increasing age and co-morbidity in cancer patients: A population-based approach

2005 • 359 citations

Lung Cancer in Women

2005 • 284 citations

Prognosis of 6644 resected non-small cell lung cancers in Japan: A Japanese lung cancer registry study

2005 • 283 citations

Ten-year survey of lung cancer treatment and survival in hospitals in the United States

1999 • 266 citations

Smoking and Lung Cancer Survival

2004 • 263 citations

Impact of Prediagnosis Smoking, Alcohol, Obesity, and Insulin Resistance on Survival in Male Cancer Patients: National Health Insurance Corporation Study

2006 • 262 citations

Effect of delays on prognosis in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

2004 • 235 citations

The Effect of Race on Invasive Staging and Surgery in Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

2005 • 235 citations

Lung cancer in young patients: analysis of a Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database.

1998 • 201 citations

Trends in incidence and prognosis of the histological subtypes of lung cancer in North America, Australia, New Zealand and Europe

2001 • 198 citations

Cancer survival in developing countries

1998 • 194 citations

Immunohistochemical markers of prognosis in non-small cell lung cancer: a review and proposal for a multiphase approach to marker evaluation

2006 • 190 citations

Survival of cancer patients in France: A population-based study from The Association of the French Cancer Registries (FRANCIM)

2006 • 161 citations

Cancer Survival in Kentucky and Health Insurance Coverage

2003 • 160 citations

Population Variations in the Initial Treatment of Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

2004 • 155 citations

Lung cancer: clinical presentation and specialist referral time

2004 • 152 citations

Associations Between Community Income and Cancer Survival in Ontario, Canada, and the United States

1999 • 141 citations

Survival after resection for primary lung cancer: a population based study of 3211 resected patients

2006 • 137 citations

In lung cancer patients, age, race-ethnicity, gender and smoking predict adverse comorbidity, which in turn predicts treatment and survival

2004 • 132 citations

Management and survival of patients with lung cancer in Scotland diagnosed in 1995: results of a national population based study

2001 • 130 citations

An international comparison of cancer survival: Toronto, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, metropolitan areas.

1997 • 128 citations

Does treatment delay affect survival in non-small cell lung cancer? A retrospective analysis from a single UK centre

2001 • 122 citations

Comparison of smoking habits of blacks and whites in a case-control study.

1991 • 119 citations

Cancer Survival in Sweden 1960–1998 Developments Across Four Decades

2003 • 115 citations

A model for decision making for the use of radiotherapy in lung cancer

2003 • 112 citations

RANTES expression is a predictor of survival in stage I lung adenocarcinoma.

2002 • 110 citations

Unlimited Access to Care: Effect on Racial Disparity and Prognostic Factors in Lung Cancer

2006 • 108 citations

Influence of delays on survival in the surgical treatment of bronchogenic carcinoma

2002 • 100 citations

Effect of preoperative delay on prognosis for patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer

2003 • 98 citations

Ethnic Disparities in the Treatment of Stage I Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

2005 • 92 citations

Survival of Cancer Patients Diagnosed between 1993 and 1996: a Collaborative Study of Population-Based Cancer Registries in Japan

2006 • 90 citations

The EUROCARE-3 database: methodology of data collection, standardisation, quality control and statistical analysis

2003 • 88 citations

Genomic and Proteomic Profiling of Lung Cancers: Lung Cancer Classification in the Age of Targeted Therapy

2005 • 86 citations

Impact of Race in Lung Cancer

2001 • 84 citations

Interpreting international comparisons of cancer survival: The effects of incomplete registration and the presence of death certificate only cases on survival estimates

2007 • 81 citations

Geographical inequalities in lung cancer management and survival in South East England: evidence of variation in access to oncology services?

2003 • 75 citations

Reported management of lung cancer in Victoria in 1993: comparison with best practice

2000 • 61 citations

Estimate of Lung Cancer Mortality From Low-Dose Spiral Computed Tomography Screening Trials: Implications for Current Mass Screening Recommendations

2004 • 61 citations

An international comparison of cancer survival: relatively poor areas of Toronto, Ontario and three US metropolitan areas

2000 • 61 citations

Prediction of Lymph Node Metastasis by Analysis of Gene Expression Profiles in Primary Lung Adenocarcinomas

2005 • 59 citations

Is There a Common Etiology for the Rising Incidence of and Decreasing Survival with Adenocarcinoma of the Lung?

2001 • 56 citations

Lung cancer: district active treatment rates affect survival

2002 • 52 citations

Defining the Need for Radiotherapy for Lung Cancer in the General Population

2003 • 51 citations

Progress in the management and outcome of small-cell lung cancer in a French region from 1981 to 1994

2001 • 42 citations

Lung cancer: the importance of seeing a respiratory physician

2003 • 42 citations

Non-small-cell lung cancer in a French department, (1982–1997): management and outcome

2005 • 39 citations

Patterns of initial management of lung cancer in the Republic of Ireland: a population-based observational study

2003 • 37 citations

Age and Co-Morbidity in Cancer Patients: A Population-Based Approach

2006 • 36 citations

Prospective population-based study on the survival of patients with lung cancer

2002 • 36 citations

Do morphology and stage explain the inferior lung cancer survival in Denmark?

1999 • 35 citations

Lung cancer patterns of care in south western Sydney, Australia

2003 • 34 citations

Comparison of patterns of care in lung cancer in three area health services in New South Wales, Australia

2004 • 32 citations

A population‐based study of lung carcinoma in Pennsylvania

2005 • 32 citations

Does high intake of fruit and vegetables improve lung cancer survival?

2006 • 29 citations

Women and small cell lung cancer: social characteristics, medical history, management and survival

2003 • 29 citations

Molecular Fingerprinting in Human Lung Cancer

2003 • 28 citations

Population-based outcomes for small cell lung cancer: impact of standard management policies in British Columbia

2003 • 27 citations

Interpretation of population-based cancer survival data.

1998 • 25 citations

Divergent changes in survival for histological types of non-small-cell lung cancer in the southeastern area of The Netherlands since 1975

1998 • 17 citations

Temporal trends in non-small cell lung cancer survival in Sweden

2007 • 11 citations

Respiratory cancer population-based survival in Mumbai, India.

2006 • 7 citations

The Descriptive Epidemiology of Primary Lung Cancer in an Alberta Cohort with a Mutivariate Analysis of Survival to Two Years

2003 • 4 citations

Cancer Survival in Scotland: Understanding Social Variations

2001 • 3 citations