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BMJ
The BMJ is the British Medical Association's journal. It published Doll and Hill's 1950 smoking and lung cancer study and remains a leading critic of weak cancer-drug evidence and a champion of open data.
Also called: The BMJBritish Medical JournalBr Med J
Overview
Weekly general-medicine journal with a long record in cancer epidemiology (Doll and Hill 1950; Doll and Peto's 50-year doctors study 2004) and in screening and health-services research such as HPV self-sampling. Research articles are free to read; the journal requires data-sharing statements and has campaigned for clinical trial transparency (AllTrials) and against surrogate-endpoint-driven approvals. Strong investigations desk covering the pharmaceutical industry and regulators.
Publisher
BMJ Group · British Medical Association
Scope
general medicine
Website
Access model
hybrid
Founded
1840
ISSN
0959-8138
Impact factor (2023)
93.6 · Clarivate Journal Citation Reports 2024 (2023 JIF)
review2024677 citations
Ultra-processed food exposure and adverse health outcomes: umbrella review of epidemiological meta-analyses
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review2020631 citations
Artificial intelligence versus clinicians: systematic review of design, reporting standards, and claims of deep learning studies
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rct2020198 citations
Long term survival and local control outcomes from single dose targeted intraoperative radiotherapy during lumpectomy (TARGIT-IORT) for early breast cancer: TARGIT-A randomised clinical trial
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meta analysis2020996 citations
Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis
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rct2018629 citations
Consumption of ultra-processed foods and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort
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meta analysis2018changed practice650 citations
Self-collected HPV samples are as accurate as clinician samples and reach women who never attend screening
Women can collect their own screening sample at home with no loss of accuracy if the laboratory uses a PCR test. Sending kits directly is the most effective way to reach women who do not attend, which matters because most cervical cancers occur in under-screened women.
observational2017390 citations
Availability of evidence of benefits on overall survival and quality of life of cancer drugs approved by European Medicines Agency: retrospective cohort study of drug approvals 2009-13
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meta analysis2017518 citations
Coffee consumption and health: umbrella review of meta-analyses of multiple health outcomes
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observational2012262 citations
Publication of NIH funded trials registered in ClinicalTrials.gov: cross sectional analysis
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observational2010314 citations
Multidisciplinary team working in cancer: what is the evidence?
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observational2004changed practice1,961 citations
Fifty years of the British Doctors Study: smokers lose ten years of life, quitting gives most of it back
Smoking is the single largest preventable cause of cancer death, and quitting at any age helps, with the greatest gain from quitting young. Cessation support belongs in every cancer service, including lung screening programmes.
observational2000changed practice802 citations
Smoking, smoking cessation, and lung cancer in the UK since 1950: combination of national statistics with two case-control studies
The single most quotable number in tobacco control: quitting at 30 avoids almost all the risk, quitting at 50 avoids half of it, and it is never not worth stopping. It is also the argument for putting cessation support inside a lung screening appointment rather than beside it.
meta analysis1995changed practice646 citations
Chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer: a meta-analysis using updated data on individual patients from 52 randomised clinical trials
The paper that ended therapeutic nihilism in lung cancer. The effect was small, and saying so honestly is what made it credible; every later trial in advanced disease is measured against the platinum doublet this analysis justified.
observational1957357 citations
Cancer; a biological approach. I. The processes of control
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observational1954changed practice358 citations
The mortality of doctors in relation to their smoking habits; a preliminary report
The methodological ancestor of modern cancer epidemiology. Cohort design, exposure recorded before outcome, and a dose-response relationship measured rather than asserted: this is the template every later study of a cancer risk factor follows.
observational1950changed practice921 citations
Doll and Hill 1950: the case-control study that tied smoking to lung cancer
Doll and Hill's 1950 study is where the evidence that smoking causes cancer begins. Everything from cigarette warnings and tax to smoke-free laws and lung screening eligibility descends from this study and the cohort that followed it.
Fei Ma
Professor of Medical Oncology; Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Breast cancerHER2Antibody-drug conjugates
A breast oncologist who led Chinese pyrotinib and ADC trials and studies of ctDNA in HER2-positive disease.
Mark Schiffman
Senior Investigator, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute
HPV natural historyCervical screeningRisk-based management
NCI epidemiologist whose HPV natural history studies underpin HPV-based cervical screening and risk-based management worldwide.
Monika Krzyzanowska
Chief, Odette Cancer Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Medical oncologyHealth services researchQuality of cancer care
Medical oncologist and health services researcher who leads the Odette Cancer Program at Sunnybrook in Toronto, one of Canada's largest cancer centres.
Peter Sasieni
Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, Queen Mary University of London; Director, Cancer Prevention Trials Unit
Cervical screeningHPV vaccination evaluationScreening trial design
Epidemiologist who showed HPV vaccination has nearly eliminated cervical cancer in vaccinated English women and leads NHS-Galleri.
Sir Richard Peto
Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Oxford
EpidemiologyTobacco and cancerMeta-analysis
Epidemiologist who quantified how smoking kills and invented the meta-analysis methods that established adjuvant cancer therapy.
Ziyu Li
President and Deputy Party Secretary
Gastric cancer surgeryGastrointestinal surgical oncologyMinimally invasive surgery
Gastric cancer surgeon who serves as President of Peking University Cancer Hospital.
reviewBMJ 2024677 citations
Ultra-processed food exposure and adverse health outcomes: umbrella review of epidemiological meta-analyses
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reviewBMJ 2020631 citations
Artificial intelligence versus clinicians: systematic review of design, reporting standards, and claims of deep learning studies
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rctBMJ 2020198 citations
Long term survival and local control outcomes from single dose targeted intraoperative radiotherapy during lumpectomy (TARGIT-IORT) for early breast cancer: TARGIT-A randomised clinical trial
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meta analysisBMJ 2020996 citations
Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis
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rctBMJ 2018629 citations
Consumption of ultra-processed foods and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort
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meta analysisBMJ 2018changed practice650 citations
Self-collected HPV samples are as accurate as clinician samples and reach women who never attend screening
Women can collect their own screening sample at home with no loss of accuracy if the laboratory uses a PCR test. Sending kits directly is the most effective way to reach women who do not attend, which matters because most cervical cancers occur in under-screened women.
observationalBMJ 2017390 citations
Availability of evidence of benefits on overall survival and quality of life of cancer drugs approved by European Medicines Agency: retrospective cohort study of drug approvals 2009-13
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meta analysisBMJ 2017518 citations
Coffee consumption and health: umbrella review of meta-analyses of multiple health outcomes
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Publication of NIH funded trials registered in ClinicalTrials.gov: cross sectional analysisMultidisciplinary team working in cancer: what is the evidence?Fifty years of the British Doctors Study: smokers lose ten years of life, quitting gives most of it backSmoking, smoking cessation, and lung cancer in the UK since 1950: combination of national statistics with two case-control studiesChemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer: a meta-analysis using updated data on individual patients from 52 randomised clinical trialsCancer; a biological approach. I. The processes of controlThe mortality of doctors in relation to their smoking habits; a preliminary reportDoll and Hill 1950: the case-control study that tied smoking to lung cancer
Similar pages
- PersonSir Richard Peto
Shares Smoking, smoking cessation, and lung cancer in the UK since 1950: combination of national statistics with two case-control studies, The mortality of doctors in relation to their smoking habits; a preliminary report, Doll and Hill 1950: the case-control study that tied smoking to lung cancer, Fifty years of the British Doctors Study: smokers lose ten years of life, quitting gives most of it back.
- TechnologyUltra-processed food and sugar-sweetened drinks
Shares Consumption of ultra-processed foods and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort, Ultra-processed food exposure and adverse health outcomes: umbrella review of epidemiological meta-analyses.
- Key paperTobacco smoking as a possible etiologic factor in bronchiogenic carcinoma; a study of 684 proved cases
Shares The mortality of doctors in relation to their smoking habits; a preliminary report, Doll and Hill 1950: the case-control study that tied smoking to lung cancer.
- IdeaSmoke-free generation laws with a built-in evaluation across countries
Shares Doll and Hill 1950: the case-control study that tied smoking to lung cancer, Fifty years of the British Doctors Study: smokers lose ten years of life, quitting gives most of it back.
collections
key papers
Artificial intelligence versus clinicians: systematic review of design, reporting standards, and claims of deep learning studiesAvailability of evidence of benefits on overall survival and quality of life of cancer drugs approved by European Medicines Agency: retrospective cohort study of drug approvals 2009-13Cancer; a biological approach. I. The processes of controlChemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer: a meta-analysis using updated data on individual patients from 52 randomised clinical trialsCoffee consumption and health: umbrella review of meta-analyses of multiple health outcomesConsumption of ultra-processed foods and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohortDoll and Hill 1950: the case-control study that tied smoking to lung cancerFifty years of the British Doctors Study: smokers lose ten years of life, quitting gives most of it backLong term survival and local control outcomes from single dose targeted intraoperative radiotherapy during lumpectomy (TARGIT-IORT) for early breast cancer: TARGIT-A randomised clinical trialMortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysisMultidisciplinary team working in cancer: what is the evidence?Publication of NIH funded trials registered in ClinicalTrials.gov: cross sectional analysisSelf-collected HPV samples are as accurate as clinician samples and reach women who never attend screeningSmoking, smoking cessation, and lung cancer in the UK since 1950: combination of national statistics with two case-control studiesThe mortality of doctors in relation to their smoking habits; a preliminary reportUltra-processed food exposure and adverse health outcomes: umbrella review of epidemiological meta-analyses