| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Index for rating diagnostic tests | Cancer | 1950 | 8,625 |
| 2 | Reporting results of cancer treatment | Cancer | 1981 | 7,386 |
| 3 | National cancer institute sponsored study of classifications of non-hodgkin's lymphomas. Summary and description of a working formulation for clinical usage | Cancer | 1982 | 3,541 |
| 4 | “Field cancerization” in oral stratified squamous epithelium. Clinical implications of multicentric origin | Cancer | 1953 | 3,111 |
| 5 | A clinical staging system for multiple myeloma correlation of measured myeloma cell mass with presenting clinical features, response to treatment, and survival | Cancer | 1975 | 2,848 |
| 6 | Primary carcinoma of the liver.A study of 100 cases among 48,900 necropsies | Cancer | 1954 | 2,682 |
| 7 | A 5-decade analysis of 13,715 carcinoid tumors | Cancer | 2003 | 2,478 |
| 8 | Occurrence and prognosis of extranodal lymphomas | Cancer | 1972 | 2,220 |
| 9 | The use of the nitrogen mustards in the palliative treatment of carcinoma.With particular reference to bronchogenic carcinoma | Cancer | 1948 | 2,130 |
| 10 | Relation of tumor size, lymph node status, and survival in 24,740 breast cancer cases | Cancer | 1989 | 2,068 |
| 11 | Apoptosis. Its significance in cancer and cancer Therapy | Cancer | 1994 | 1,938 |
| 12 | Changing patterns in the incidence of esophageal and gastric carcinoma in the United States | Cancer | 1998 | 1,936 |
| 13 | Congestive heart failure in patients treated with doxorubicin | Cancer | 2003 | 1,874 |
| 14 | Natural history of hepatocellular carcinoma and prognosis in relation to treatment study of 850 patients | Cancer | 1985 | 1,854 |
| 15 | The evolution of cancer of the colon and rectum | Cancer | 1975 | 1,853 |
| 16 | Metastases in carcinoma.Analysis of 1000 autopsied cases | Cancer | 1950 | 1,781 |
| 17 | Descriptive analysis of estrogen receptor (ER)-negative, progesterone receptor (PR)-negative, and HER2-negative invasive breast cancer, the so-called triple-negative phenotype | Cancer | 2007 | 1,764 |
| 18 | Osteosarcoma incidence and survival rates from 1973 to 2004 | Cancer | 2009 | 1,758 |
| 19 | Surgical pathologic spread patterns of endometrial cancer: A gynecologic oncology group study | Cancer | 1987 | 1,720 |
| 20 | Pathologic assessment of tumor regression after preoperative chemoradiotherapy of esophageal carcinoma. Clinicopathologic correlations | Cancer | 1994 | 1,719 |
| 21 | Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1975‐2006, featuring colorectal cancer trends and impact of interventions (risk factors, screening, and treatment) to reduce future rates | Cancer | 2010 | 1,691 |
| 22 | An approach for the treatment of penile carcinoma | Cancer | 1977 | 1,627 |
| 23 | Follow-up study of thymomas with special reference to their clinical stages | Cancer | 1981 | 1,601 |
| 24 | A new prognostic classification of chronic lymphocytic leukemia derived from a multivariate survival analysis | Cancer | 1981 | 1,528 |
| 25 | The National Cancer Data Base report on cutaneous and noncutaneous melanoma | Cancer | 1998 | 1,486 |
| 26 | Malignant lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue. A distinctive type of B-cell lymphoma | Cancer | 1983 | 1,472 |
| 27 | Localized mediastinal lymph-node hyperplasia resembling thymoma | Cancer | 1956 | 1,449 |
| 28 | Decitabine improves patient outcomes in myelodysplastic syndromes | Cancer | 2006 | 1,447 |
| 29 | A clinicopathologic analysis of adriamycin cardiotoxicity | Cancer | 1973 | 1,446 |
| 30 | Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors. A clinicopathologic study of 120 cases | Cancer | 1986 | 1,423 |
| 31 | Malignant fibrous histiocytoma.An Analysis of 200 Cases | Cancer | 1978 | 1,419 |
| 32 | Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma a vascular tumor often mistaken for a carcinoma | Cancer | 1982 | 1,279 |
| 33 | The role of radiotherapy in cancer treatment | Cancer | 2005 | 1,279 |
| 34 | Role of surgical outcome as prognostic factor in advanced epithelial ovarian cancer: A combined exploratory analysis of 3 prospectively randomized phase 3 multicenter trials | Cancer | 2009 | 1,270 |
| 35 | Epidemiology of cancer of the colon and rectum | Cancer | 1971 | 1,268 |
| 36 | Skeletal complications of malignancy | Cancer | 1997 | 1,258 |
| 37 | Hepatitis B virus.The major etiology of hepatocellular carcinoma | Cancer | 1988 | 1,241 |
| 38 | Histopathology and prognosis of Wilms tumorResults from the first national wilms' tumor study | Cancer | 1978 | 1,240 |
| 39 | Perspectives on cancer therapy-induced mucosal injury | Cancer | 2004 | 1,214 |
| 40 | Hyaline-vascular and plasma-cell types of giant lymph node hyperplasia of the mediastinum and other locations | Cancer | 1972 | 1,189 |
| 41 | Small adenocarcinoma of the lung. Histologic characteristics and prognosis | Cancer | 1995 | 1,187 |
| 42 | International Classification of Childhood Cancer, third edition | Cancer | 2005 | 1,175 |
| 43 | The behavior of endometrial hyperplasia. A long-term study of “untreated” hyperplasia in 170 patients | Cancer | 1985 | 1,166 |
| 44 | Assessing symptom distress in cancer patients | Cancer | 2000 | 1,156 |
| 45 | Continuous culture of human lymphoblasts from peripheral blood of a child with acute leukemia | Cancer | 1965 | 1,148 |
| 46 | Carcinoid TumorsAn analysis of 2837 cases | Cancer | 1975 | 1,142 |
| 47 | The PedsQL™ in pediatric cancer | Cancer | 2002 | 1,136 |
| 48 | The prevalence of pituitary adenomas | Cancer | 2004 | 1,126 |
| 49 | Prognostic markers in triple-negative breast cancer | Cancer | 2007 | 1,091 |
| 50 | Cancer risk in patients with inflammatory bowel disease | Cancer | 2001 | 1,090 |
