| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Alcohol Consumption and Mortality among Middle-Aged and Elderly U.S. Adults | New England Journal of Medicine | 1997 | 1,185 |
| 2 | Trends in the Leading Causes of Death in the United States, 1970-2002 | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2005 | 843 |
| 3 | Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975–2005, Featuring Trends in Lung Cancer, Tobacco Use, and Tobacco Control | Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 2008 | 830 |
| 4 | Incidence of noncutaneous melanomas in the U.S. | Cancer | 2005 | 586 |
| 5 | Association of insurance status and ethnicity with cancer stage at diagnosis for 12 cancer sites: a retrospective analysis | Lancet Oncology, The | 2008 | 507 |
| 6 | Fumonisins Disrupt Sphingolipid Metabolism, Folate Transport, and Neural Tube Development in Embryo Culture and In Vivo: A Potential Risk Factor for Human Neural Tube Defects among Populations Consuming Fumonisin-Contaminated Maize | Journal of Nutrition | 2004 | 484 |
| 7 | Meat Consumption and Risk of Colorectal Cancer | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2005 | 461 |
| 8 | Cigarette Smoking and Changes in the Histopathology of Lung Cancer | Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 1997 | 454 |
| 9 | Cancer Mortality in the United States by Education Level and Race | Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 2007 | 392 |
| 10 | Recent trends in breast cancer incidence rates by age and tumor characteristics among U.S. women | Breast Cancer Research | 2007 | 303 |
| 11 | Body Mass Index, Weight Change, and Risk of Prostate Cancer in the Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort | Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention | 2007 | 300 |
| 12 | Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Smoking-Cessation Interventions | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 2008 | 252 |
| 13 | Role of smoking in global and regional cancer epidemiology: Current patterns and data needs | International Journal of Cancer | 2005 | 246 |
| 14 | Diet Quality Is Associated with the Risk of Estrogen Receptor–Negative Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women | Journal of Nutrition | 2006 | 242 |
| 15 | Under-use of smoking-cessation treatments | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 2005 | 237 |
| 16 | A pooled analysis of 14 cohort studies of anthropometric factors and pancreatic cancer risk | International Journal of Cancer | 2011 | 221 |
| 17 | Cigarette Smoking and Colorectal Cancer Mortality in the Cancer Prevention Study II | Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 2000 | 210 |
| 18 | Evaluating adherence to recommended diets in adults: the Alternate Healthy Eating Index | Public Health Nutrition | 2006 | 206 |
| 19 | Dairy, Calcium, and Vitamin D Intake and Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Risk in the Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort | Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention | 2005 | 188 |
| 20 | Two large prospective studies of mortality among men who use snuff or chewing tobacco (United States) | Cancer Causes and Control | 2005 | 178 |
| 21 | Insurance status and stage of cancer at diagnosis among women with breast cancer | Cancer | 2007 | 153 |
| 22 | A Prospective Study of Overall Diet Quality and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women | Diabetes Care | 2007 | 144 |
| 23 | Vitamin E intake and risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Annals of Neurology | 2005 | 143 |
| 24 | Amount, Type, and Timing of Recreational Physical Activity in Relation to Colon and Rectal Cancer in Older Adults: the Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort | Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention | 2004 | 138 |
| 25 | Body Mass and Endometrial Cancer Risk by Hormone Replacement Therapy and Cancer Subtype | Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention | 2008 | 131 |
| 26 | Cigarette smoking, use of other tobacco products and stomach cancer mortality in US adults: The Cancer Prevention Study II | International Journal of Cancer | 2002 | 125 |
| 27 | Vitamin D pathway gene polymorphisms, diet, and risk of postmenopausal breast cancer: a nested case-control study | Breast Cancer Research | 2007 | 121 |
| 28 | Pooled analyses of 13 prospective cohort studies on folate intake and colon cancer | Cancer Causes and Control | 2010 | 111 |
| 29 | Hypertension, the Kuna, and the Epidemiology of Flavanols | Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology | 2006 | 109 |
| 30 | Prospective study of chemical exposures and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry | 2009 | 106 |
| 31 | Meat Consumption among Black and White Men and Risk of Prostate Cancer in the Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort | Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention | 2006 | 105 |
| 32 | Mortality from Leading Causes by Education and Race in the United States, 2001 | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 2008 | 105 |
| 33 | Association Between Exclusive Pipe Smoking and Mortality From Cancer and Other Diseases | Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 2004 | 96 |
| 34 | Widening of Socioeconomic Inequalities in U.S. Death Rates, 1993–2001 | PLoS ONE | 2008 | 95 |
| 35 | Lung cancer rates convergence in young men and women in the United States: Analysis by birth cohort and histologic type | International Journal of Cancer | 2003 | 89 |
| 36 | Inflammation and Cancer: An Epidemiological Perspective | Novartis Foundation Symposium | 2008 | 86 |
| 37 | Diet Quality Index as a Predictor of Short-term Mortality in the American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2003 | 85 |
| 38 | Landscape metric performance in analyzing two decades of deforestation in the Amazon Basin of Rondonia, Brazil | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2006 | 83 |
| 39 | Lung cancer trends in young adults: an early indicator of progress in tobacco control (United States) | Cancer Causes and Control | 2003 | 79 |
| 40 | Consumption of animal foods and endometrial cancer risk: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis | Cancer Causes and Control | 2007 | 78 |
| 41 | Fruits and Vegetables and Endometrial Cancer Risk: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis | Nutrition and Cancer | 2007 | 70 |
| 42 | Leanness and Lung Cancer Risk: Fact or Artifact? | Epidemiology | 2002 | 67 |
| 43 | A Pooled Analysis of 12 Cohort Studies of Dietary Fat, Cholesterol and Egg Intake and Ovarian Cancer | Cancer Causes and Control | 2006 | 67 |
| 44 | Flavanols, the Kuna, cocoa consumption, and nitric oxide | Journal of the American Society of Hypertension | 2009 | 67 |
| 45 | Underuse of Screening Sigmoidoscopy and Colonoscopy in a Large Cohort of US Adults | American Journal of Public Health | 2004 | 66 |
| 46 | Intakes of coffee, tea, milk, soda and juice and renal cell cancer in a pooled analysis of 13 prospective studies | International Journal of Cancer | 2007 | 60 |
| 47 | Amount, type, and timing of recreational physical activity in relation to colon and rectal cancer in older adults: the Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort | Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention | 2004 | 57 |
| 48 | Tobacco-related disease mortality among men who switched from cigarettes to spit tobacco | Tobacco Control | 2007 | 54 |
| 49 | Inflammation and cancer: an epidemiological perspective | Novartis Foundation Symposium | 2004 | 52 |
| 50 | Smokeless tobacco use and the risk of Parkinson's disease mortality | Movement Disorders | 2005 | 50 |
