| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Index for rating diagnostic tests | Cancer | 1950 | 8,967 |
| 2 | Reporting results of cancer treatment | Cancer | 1981 | 7,417 |
| 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 | 3,546 |
| 4 | “Field cancerization” in oral stratified squamous epithelium. Clinical implications of multicentric origin | Cancer | 1953 | 3,148 |
| 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 | 2,871 |
| 6 | Primary carcinoma of the liver.A study of 100 cases among 48,900 necropsies | Cancer | 1954 | 2,709 |
| 7 | A 5‐decade analysis of 13,715 carcinoid tumors | Cancer | 2003 | 2,513 |
| 8 | Occurrence and prognosis of extranodal lymphomas | Cancer | 1972 | 2,230 |
| 9 | The use of the nitrogen mustards in the palliative treatment of carcinoma.With particular reference to bronchogenic carcinoma | Cancer | 1948 | 2,151 |
| 10 | Relation of tumor size, lymph node status, and survival in 24,740 breast cancer cases | Cancer | 1989 | 2,083 |
| 11 | Apoptosis. Its significance in cancer and cancer Therapy | Cancer | 1994 | 1,945 |
| 12 | Changing patterns in the incidence of esophageal and gastric carcinoma in the United States | Cancer | 1998 | 1,944 |
| 13 | Congestive heart failure in patients treated with doxorubicin | Cancer | 2003 | 1,931 |
| 14 | Presalvage prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and PSA doubling time as predictors of biochemical failure of salvage cryotherapy in patients with locally recurrent prostate cancer after radiotherapy | Cancer | 2006 | 1,907 |
| 15 | Natural history of hepatocellular carcinoma and prognosis in relation to treatment study of 850 patients | Cancer | 1985 | 1,864 |
| 16 | The evolution of cancer of the colon and rectum | Cancer | 1975 | 1,861 |
| 17 | Osteosarcoma incidence and survival rates from 1973 to 2004 | Cancer | 2009 | 1,834 |
| 18 | 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 | 1,798 |
| 19 | Metastases in carcinoma.Analysis of 1000 autopsied cases | Cancer | 1950 | 1,794 |
| 20 | Pathologic assessment of tumor regression after preoperative chemoradiotherapy of esophageal carcinoma. Clinicopathologic correlations | Cancer | 1994 | 1,754 |
| 21 | Surgical pathologic spread patterns of endometrial cancer: A gynecologic oncology group study | Cancer | 1987 | 1,740 |
| 22 | 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 | 1,728 |
| 23 | An approach for the treatment of penile carcinoma | Cancer | 1977 | 1,639 |
| 24 | Follow-up study of thymomas with special reference to their clinical stages | Cancer | 1981 | 1,615 |
| 25 | A National Cancer Data Base report on 53,856 cases of thyroid carcinoma treated in the U.S., 1985-1995 | Cancer | 1998 | 1,574 |
| 26 | A new prognostic classification of chronic lymphocytic leukemia derived from a multivariate survival analysis | Cancer | 1981 | 1,542 |
| 27 | The National Cancer Data Base report on cutaneous and noncutaneous melanoma | Cancer | 1998 | 1,521 |
| 28 | The rapid assessment of fatigue severity in cancer patients | Cancer | 1999 | 1,518 |
| 29 | Malignant lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue. A distinctive type of B-cell lymphoma | Cancer | 1983 | 1,484 |
| 30 | Decitabine improves patient outcomes in myelodysplastic syndromes | Cancer | 2006 | 1,463 |
| 31 | Localized mediastinal lymph-node hyperplasia resembling thymoma | Cancer | 1956 | 1,462 |
| 32 | A clinicopathologic analysis of adriamycin cardiotoxicity | Cancer | 1973 | 1,451 |
| 33 | Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors. A clinicopathologic study of 120 cases | Cancer | 1986 | 1,436 |
| 34 | Surgical resection of colorectal carcinoma metastases to the liver: A prognostic scoring system to improve case selection, based on 1568 patients | Cancer | 1996 | 1,433 |
| 35 | Malignant fibrous histiocytoma.An Analysis of 200 Cases | Cancer | 1978 | 1,427 |
| 36 | The role of radiotherapy in cancer treatment | Cancer | 2005 | 1,332 |
| 37 | 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 | 1,313 |
| 38 | Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma a vascular tumor often mistaken for a carcinoma | Cancer | 1982 | 1,295 |
| 39 | Epidemiology of cancer of the colon and rectum | Cancer | 1971 | 1,274 |
| 40 | Skeletal complications of malignancy | Cancer | 1997 | 1,267 |
| 41 | Histopathology and prognosis of Wilms tumorResults from the first national wilms' tumor study | Cancer | 1978 | 1,249 |
| 42 | Hepatitis B virus.The major etiology of hepatocellular carcinoma | Cancer | 1988 | 1,244 |
| 43 | Perspectives on cancer therapy-induced mucosal injury | Cancer | 2004 | 1,241 |
| 44 | International Classification of Childhood Cancer, third edition | Cancer | 2005 | 1,212 |
| 45 | Small adenocarcinoma of the lung. Histologic characteristics and prognosis | Cancer | 1995 | 1,201 |
| 46 | Hyaline‐vascular and plasma‐cell types of giant lymph node hyperplasia of the mediastinum and other locations | Cancer | 1972 | 1,195 |
| 47 | Assessing symptom distress in cancer patients | Cancer | 2000 | 1,185 |
| 48 | The behavior of endometrial hyperplasia. A long-term study of “untreated” hyperplasia in 170 patients | Cancer | 1985 | 1,178 |
| 49 | The prevalence of pituitary adenomas | Cancer | 2004 | 1,169 |
| 50 | The PedsQL™ in pediatric cancer | Cancer | 2002 | 1,163 |
