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The association between diabetes and gastric cancer: results from the Stomach Cancer Pooling Project Consortium 

Background: Prior epidemiologic studies on the association between diabetes and gastric cancer risk provided inconclusive findings, while traditional, aggregate data meta-analyses were characterized by high between-study heterogeneity. Objective: To investigate the association between type 2 diabet...

Association of time of breakfast and nighttime fasting duration with breast cancer risk in the multicase-control study in Spain 

Circadian nutritional behaviors, defined by the daily eating/fasting cycle, have been linked with breast cancer. This study aimed to further disentangle the association of nighttime fasting duration and time of breakfast with breast cancer risk. We analyzed data from 1,181 breast cancer cases and 1...

Breast Dense Tissue Segmentation with Noisy Labels: A Hybrid Threshold-Based and Mask-Based Approach 

Breast density assessed from digital mammograms is a known biomarker related to a higher risk of developing breast cancer. Supervised learning algorithms have been implemented to determine this. However, the performance of these algorithms depends on the quality of the ground-truth information, whi...

Thirty-day suicidal thoughts and behaviours in the Spanish adult general population during the first wave of the Spain COVID-19 pandemic 

Aims: To investigate the prevalence of suicidal thoughts and behaviours (STB; i.e. suicidal ideation, plans or attempts) in the Spanish adult general population during the first wave of the Spain coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic (March-July, 2020), and to investigate the individual- and...

Electrochemical immunosensing of Growth arrest‐specific 6 in human plasma and tumor cell secretomes 

Growth arrest-specific 6 (GAS6) protein plays a key role in processes related toproliferation,inflammation,angiogenesis,andatheroscleroticplaqueformation.In addition, it has been reported that plasma levels of GAS6 are related to cancerprognosis and other relevant pathologies, such as heart failure...

Differences in breast cancer-risk factors between screen-detected and non-screen-detected cases (MCC-Spain study) 

Purpose: The variation in breast cancer (BC)-risk factor associations between screen-detected (SD) and non-screen-detected (NSD) tumors has been poorly studied, despite the interest of this aspect in risk assessment and prevention. This study analyzes the differences in breast cancer-risk factor as...

The choice of screening instrument matters: the case of problematic cannabis use screening in spanish population of adolescents 

The aim of this study was to examine the feasibility of problem cannabis use screening instruments administration within wide school surveys, their psychometric properties, overlaps, and relationships with other variables. Students from 7 Spanish regions, aged 14-18, who attended secondary schools ...

Sleep duration and napping in relation to colorectal and gastric cancer in the MCC-Spain study 

Sleep duration is a novel and potentially modifiable risk factor for cancer. We evaluated the association of self-reported sleep duration and daytime napping with odds of colorectal and gastric cancer. We included 2008 incident colorectal cancer cases, 542 gastric cancer cases and 3622 frequency-ma...

The Association of Nighttime Fasting Duration and Prostate Cancer Risk: Results from the Multicase-Control (MCC) Study in Spain 

Nighttime fasting has been inconclusively associated with a reduced risk of cancer. The purpose of this study was to investigate this association in relation to prostate cancer risk. We examined data from 607 prostate cancer cases and 848 population controls who had never worked in night shift work...

Effect of mistimed eating patterns on breast and prostate cancer risk (MCC-Spain Study) 

Modern life involves mistimed sleeping and eating patterns that in experimental studies are associated with adverse health effects. We assessed whether timing of meals is associated with breast and prostate cancer risk taking into account lifestyle and chronotype, a characteristic correlating with ...

Tumour characteristics and survivorship in a cohort of breast cancer: the MCC-Spain study 

Purpose: The objective of this study is to analyse the relative survival with breast cancer in women diagnosed after new treatments were generalised and to ascertain the current effect that tumour characteristics such as grade, stage or subtype have on survival as well as the new AJCC-pathological ...

Mental health impact of the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic on Spanish healthcare workers: A large cross-sectional survey 

[EN] Introduction: Healthcare workers are vulnerable to adverse mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. We assessed prevalence of mental disorders and associated factors during the first wave of the pandemic among healthcare professionals in Spain. Methods: All workers in 18 healthcare inst...

Indicadores contextuales para evaluar los determinantes sociales de la salud y la crisis económica española 

[ES] Objetivo: Proporcionar indicadores para evaluar, en España y en sus comunidades autónomas, el impacto sobre la salud, sus determinantes sociales y las desigualdades en salud del contexto social y de la crisis económica más reciente. Métodos: Basándonos en el marco conceptual de los determinant...

Consumption of Ultra-Processed Food and Drinks and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia in the MCC-Spain Study 

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common leukemia in adults in Western countries. Its etiology is largely unknown but increasing incidence rates observed worldwide suggest that lifestyle and environmental factors such as diet might play a role in the development of CLL. Hence, we hypot...

Population-based multicase-control study in common tumors in Spain (MCC-Spain): rationale and study design 

[EN] Introduction: We present the protocol of a large population-based case-control study of 5 common tumors in Spain (MCC-Spain) that evaluates environmental exposures and genetic factors. Methods: Between 2008-2013, 10,106 subjects aged 20-85 were enrolled in 23 hospitals and primary care centres...

Depresión en jóvenes usuarios regulares de cocaína reclutados en la comunidad 

[ES] Objetivo: Identificar el perfil, la prevalencia de depresión y factores asociados en usuarios regulares de cocaína captados en la comunidad. Método: Estudio transversal de 630 usuarios regulares de cocaína que no consumían heroína. La depresión, el apoyo social y la dependencia se evaluaron co...

Access to sterile syringes among young drug injectors in Madrid and Barcelona and its association with risk behaviour. 

[EN] To evaluate access to sterile syringes and its association with injection risk behaviour in Madrid and Barcelona. Cross-sectional community study by computer-assisted personal interview in 465 young heroin injectors between 2001 and 2003. Some 4.2% had not obtained any free sterile syringes i...

La Red de investigación 'infancia y medio ambiente (Red INMA)": protocolo de estudio. 

[ES] Cada vez existe mayor evidencia de la influencia de la dieta y dela exposición a dosis bajas de tóxicos durante la etapa prenatal y primera infancia sobre la salud y el bienestar en etapas posteriores de lavida. Siguiendo las recomendaciones de la OMS y de la Unión Europea en el año 2003 se co...

Association between Polyphenol Intake and Gastric Cancer Risk by Anatomic and Histologic Subtypes: MCC-Spain. 

Several anticancer properties have been largely attributed to phenolics in in vivo and in vitro studies, but epidemiologic evidence is still scarce. Furthermore, some classes have not been studied in relation to gastric cancer (GC). The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between the i...

Recommendations from the European Commission Initiative on Breast Cancer for multigene testing to guide the use of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with early breast cancer, hormone receptor positive, HER-2 negative. 

Predicting the risk of recurrence and response to chemotherapy in women with early breast cancer is crucial to optimise adjuvant treatment. Despite the common practice of using multigene tests to predict recurrence, existing recommendations are inconsistent. Our aim was to formulate healthcare reco...