Publications by authors named "A Molina-Barcelo"
An individual socioeconomic status index (ISESI) was used to analyse inequalities in participation and colonoscopy acceptance in the Valencia Region Colorectal Cancer Screening Programme (VR-CRCSP). This is a cross-sectional study of men and women aged 50-69 who had been invited to participate in the VR-CRCSP as of February 2020 (N = 1,066,763). The variables included in the ISESI were nationality, employment status, disability, healthcare coverage, risk of vulnerability, and family size.
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- * It analyzed data from 805 CRC survivors using the SF-12 and FCSI questionnaires, revealing that factors like age, sex, and geographic area significantly impact both physical and mental quality of life.
- * The findings suggest that older women have the worst HRQoL scores, indicating a need to identify these factors to create strategies that improve survivorship outcomes and reduce the negative impacts of cancer.
Background: Prostate cancer (PC) is the second most frequent tumor in men worldwide; however, its etiology remains largely unknown, with the exception of age and family history. The wide variability in incidence/mortality across countries suggests a certain role for environmental exposures that has not yet been clarified.
Objective: To evaluate the association between risk of PC (by clinical profile) and residential proximity to pollutant industrial installations (by industrial groups, groups of carcinogens, and specific pollutants released), within the context of a Spanish population-based multicase-control study of incident cancer (MCC-Spain).
Objective: This cross-sectional study aims to analyse the relationship between sedentary behaviour and breast cancer (BC) risk from a social perspective.
Methods: Women aged 45-70 who participated in the Valencia Region Breast Cancer Screening Programme (2018-2019) were included, with a total of 121,359 women analysed, including 506 with cancer and 120,853 without cancer. The response variable was BC (screen-detected) and the main explanatory variable was sedentary behaviour (≤2 / >2-≤3 / >3-≤5 / >5 hours/day, h/d).
Background: The recommendation for the implementation of mammography screening in women aged 45-49 and 70-74 is conditional with moderate certainty of the evidence. The aim of this study is to simulate the long-term outcomes (2020-50) of using different age range scenarios in the breast cancer screening programme of the Valencia Region (Spain), considering different programme participation rates.
Methods: Three age range scenarios (S) were simulated with the EU-TOPIA tool, considering a biennial screening interval: S1, 45-69 years old (y); S2, 50-69 y and S3, 45-74 y.