Bette J. Caan

50.4k citations

425 papers · 24.1k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 88

Impact in

Oncology top 0.05%
- Cancer Risks and Factors
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
Geriatrics and Gerontology top 0.2%

Papers in

Oncology 218
- Cancer Risks and Factors 124
- Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection 49
- Cancer survivorship and care 36
Geriatrics and Gerontology 24

Co-authors: Martha L. Slattery John D. Potter Marilyn L. Kwan Erin Weltzien Candyce H. Kroenke Charles P. Quesenberry Elizabeth M. Cespedes Feliciano Adrienne Castillo
Journals: Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention (48 papers)Cancer Causes & Control (29 papers)Cancer (21 papers)International Journal of Cancer (20 papers)Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (19 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada South Africa

In The Last Decade

Bette J. Caan

415 papers receiving 23.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Association of Muscle and Adiposity Measured by Computed Tomography With Survival in Patients With Nonmetastatic Breast Cancer 2018 · 362 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2018 JAMA Oncology
2017 JAMA Oncology
2015 JAMA Oncology
2000 New England Journal of Medicine
1998 American Journal of Epidemiology

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1	Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry–Derived Adiposity and Colorectal Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Postmenopausal Women Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Shelby G. Ziller, Robert M. Blew, Denise J. Roe, Andrew Odegaard, Zhao Chen, Bette J. Caan, Juhua Luo, JoAnn E. Manson, Marian L. Neuhouser, Thomas E. Rohan, Jennifer W. Bea	2025	0
2	Effect of home‐based resistance training on chemotherapy relative dose intensity and tolerability in colon cancer: The FORCE randomized control trial Cancer ·Bette J. Caan, Justin C. Brown, Catherine Lee, Alexandra M. Binder, Erin Weltzien, Michelle C. Ross, Charles P. Quesenberry, Kristin L. Campbell, Elizabeth M. Cespedes Feliciano, Adrienne Castillo, Sara K. Quinney, Shengping Yang, Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt, Kathryn H. Schmitz	2024	7
3	Radiodensities of Skeletal Muscle and Visceral Adipose Tissues Are Prognostic Factors in Clear-Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Patrick T. Bradshaw, Linnea T. Olsson, Alejandro Sánchez, Andrea Knežević, Oğuz Akın, Jessica M. Scott, A. Ari Hakimi, Paul Russo, Bette J. Caan, Marina Mourtzakis, Helena Furberg	2024	0
4	Body Composition, Relative Dose Intensity, and Adverse Events among Patients with Colon Cancer Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·En Cheng, Bette J. Caan, Peggy M. Cawthon, William J. Evans, Marc K. Hellerstein, Mahalakshmi Shankaran, Edna Nyangau, Kristin L. Campbell, Catherine Lee, Alexandra M. Binder, Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt, Kathryn H. Schmitz, Elizabeth M. Cespedes Feliciano	2023	5
5	Pre‐diagnosis lipid levels and mortality after obesity‐related cancer diagnosis in the Women's Health Initiative cardiovascular disease biomarker cohort Cancer Medicine ·Gayane Hovsepyan, Ana Barac, Theodore M. Brasky, Aladdin H. Shadyab, Amy Lehman, Eric McLaughlin, Nazmus Saquib, Neil M. Iyengar, Robert A. Wild, Bette J. Caan, Pinkal Desai, Jennifer Beebe‐Dimmer, Cynthia A. Thomson, Michael S. Simon	2023	5
6	Effect of Exercise on Sarcopenia among Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review Cancers ·Anlan Cao, Leah M. Ferrucci, Bette J. Caan, Melinda L. Irwin	2022	23
7	Adiposity and cancer survival: a systematic review and meta-analysis Cancer Causes & Control ·En Cheng, Jocelyn Kirley, Elizabeth M. Cespedes Feliciano, Bette J. Caan	2022	36
8	Individual‐ and neighborhood‐level socioeconomic status and risk of aggressive breast cancer subtypes in a pooled cohort of women from Kaiser Permanente Northern California Cancer ·Rhonda Aoki, Stephen Uong, Scarlett Lin Gomez, Stacey Alexeeff, Bette J. Caan, Lawrence H. Kushi, Jacqueline M. Torres, Alice Guan, Alison J. Canchola, Brittany N. Morey, Katherine Lin, Candyce H. Kroenke	2021	21
9	Adipose Tissue Distribution and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Breast Cancer Survivors Journal of Clinical Oncology ·Elizabeth M. Cespedes Feliciano, Wendy Y. Chen, Patrick T. Bradshaw, Carla M. Prado, Stacey Alexeeff, Kathleen B. Albers, Adrienne Castillo, Bette J. Caan	2019	66
10	Influence of Smoking, Body Mass Index, and Other Factors on the Preventive Effect of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs on Colorectal Cancer Risk Cancer Research ·Xiaoliang Wang, Andrew T. Chan, Martha L. Slattery, Jenny Chang‐Claude, John D. Potter, Steven Gallinger, Bette J. Caan, Johanna W. Lampe, Polly A. Newcomb, Niha Zubair, Li Hsu, Robert E. Schoen, Michael Hoffmeister, Hermann Brenner, Loı̈c Le Marchand, Ulrike Peters, Emily White	2018	26
11	Reparameterization of PAM50 Expression Identifies Novel Breast Tumor Dimensions and Leads to Discovery of a Genome-Wide Significant Breast Cancer Locus at 12q15 Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Michael J. Madsen, Stacey Knight, Carol Sweeney, Rachel E. Factor, Mohamed E. Salama, Inge J. Stijleman, Venkatesh Rajamanickam, Bryan E. Welm, Sasi Arunachalam, Brandt Jones, Rakesh Rachamadugu, Kerry Rowe, Melissa H. Cessna, Alun Thomas, Lawrence H. Kushi, Bette J. Caan, Philip S. Bernard, Nicola J. Camp	2018	7
12	Explaining the Obesity Paradox: The Association between Body Composition and Colorectal Cancer Survival (C-SCANS Study) Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Bette J. Caan, Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt, Candyce H. Kroenke, Stacey Alexeeff, Jingjie Xiao, Erin Weltzien, Elizabeth M. Cespedes Feliciano, Adrienne Castillo, Charles P. Quesenberry, Marilyn L. Kwan, Carla M. Prado	2017	261
13	Exercise and Prognosis on the Basis of Clinicopathologic and Molecular Features in Early-Stage Breast Cancer: The LACE and Pathways Studies Cancer Research ·Lee W. Jones, Marilyn L. Kwan, Erin Weltzien, Sarat Chandarlapaty, Barbara Sternfeld, Carol Sweeney, Philip S. Bernard, Adrienne Castillo, Laurel A. Habel, Candyce H. Kroenke, Bryan Langholz, Charles P. Queensberry, Chau T. Dang, Britta Weigelt, Lawrence H. Kushi, Bette J. Caan	2016	42
14	The Effect of Patient and Contextual Characteristics on Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Breast Cancer Mortality Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Richard Sposto, Theresa H.M. Keegan, Cheryl Vigen, Marilyn L. Kwan, Leslie Bernstein, Esther M. John, Iona Cheng, Juan Yang, Jocelyn Koo, Allison W. Kurian, Bette J. Caan, Yani Lu, Kristine R. Monroe, Salma Shariff‐Marco, Scarlett Lin Gomez, Anna H. Wu	2016	22
15	Cancer Incidence and Mortality during the Intervention and Postintervention Periods of the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Cynthia A. Thomson, Linda Van Horn, Bette J. Caan, Aaron K. Aragaki, Rowan T. Chlebowski, JoAnn E. Manson, Thomas E. Rohan, Lesley F. Tinker, Lewis H. Kuller, Lifang Hou, Dorothy S. Lane, Karen Johnson, Mara Z. Vitolins, Ross L. Prentice	2014	41
16	Postdiagnosis Alcohol Consumption and Breast Cancer Prognosis in the After Breast Cancer Pooling Project Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Marilyn L. Kwan, Wendy Y. Chen, Shirley W. Flatt, Erin Weltzien, Sarah Nechuta, Elizabeth M. Poole, Michelle D. Holmes, Ruth E. Patterson, Xiao Ou Shu, John P. Pierce, Bette J. Caan	2012	54
17	Low to Moderate Alcohol Intake Is Not Associated with Increased Mortality after Breast Cancer Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Shirley W. Flatt, Cynthia A. Thomson, Ellen B. Gold, Loki Natarajan, Cheryl L. Rock, Wael K. Al‐Delaimy, Ruth E. Patterson, Nazmus Saquib, Bette J. Caan, John P. Pierce	2010	48
18	Assessing Tumor Mutations to Gain Insight into Base Excision Repair Sequence Polymorphisms and Smoking in Colon Cancer Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Karen Curtin, Wade S. Samowitz, Roger K. Wolff, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Bette J. Caan, John D. Potter, Martha L. Slattery	2009	44
19	Vitamin D Related Genes, CYP24A1 and CYP27B1, and Colon Cancer Risk Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Linda M. Dong, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Li Hsu, David Duggan, Debbie S. Benitez, Emily White, Martha L. Slattery, Fred M. Farin, Karen W. Makar, Christopher S. Carlson, Bette J. Caan, John D. Potter, Ulrike Peters	2009	51
20	Greater Survival After Breast Cancer in Physically Active Women With High Vegetable-Fruit Intake Regardless of Obesity Journal of Clinical Oncology ·John P. Pierce, Marcia L. Stefanick, Shirley W. Flatt, Loki Natarajan, Barbara Sternfeld, Lisa Madlensky, Wael K. Al‐Delaimy, Cynthia A. Thomson, Sheila Kealey, Roman Hájek, Barbara A. Parker, Vicky A. Newman, Bette J. Caan, Cheryl L. Rock	2007	309

About Bette J. Caan

Bette J. Caan is a scholar working on Oncology, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Physiology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Cancer Research, having authored 425 papers that have together received 24.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Cancer Risks and Factors (124 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (106 papers), Nutrition and Health in Aging (89 papers), Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection (49 papers), Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (43 papers), Cancer survivorship and care (36 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (36 papers) and Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (34 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Oncology (10.1k citations), Geriatrics and Gerontology (1.1k citations), Physiology (6.5k citations), Cancer Research (3.4k citations) and Pathology and Forensic Medicine (3.8k citations). Bette J. Caan has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and South Africa. Frequent co-authors include Martha L. Slattery, John D. Potter, Marilyn L. Kwan, Erin Weltzien, Candyce H. Kroenke, Charles P. Quesenberry, Elizabeth M. Cespedes Feliciano, Adrienne Castillo, Wade S. Samowitz and John P. Pierce. Their work appears in journals such as Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, Cancer Causes & Control, Cancer, International Journal of Cancer and Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.

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