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Scienti c Programmes
Epidemiology and control of chronic diseases
Coordinator: Ma José Sánchez Pérez*
Over this year, Programme 1 continued with its scienti c work in the strategic sub-programme (MCC- Spain) It also got under way a new GENRISK sub-programme on the use of genetic susceptibility markers for designing personalised screening strategies of chronic diseases
Lastly, we continued with the work done by the other sub-programmes, including EPIC (focussing not only on cancer, but on other chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular complaints, dementias, in ammatory bowel diseases ...), ENRICA, mammographic density and breast cancer, DARIOS, FRESCO, POIBC, morbidity-mortality through tra c injuries in elderly drivers and the platform for cancer regis- tries in the population
MCC-Spain
The MCC study has published 15 articles, most in rst quartile and rst decile journals Some of the re- sults of the study disseminated this year are the publication of a colorectal cancer risk model including risk factors and genetic variants, the protective e ect of the Mediterranean diet against prostate cancer and gastric cancer, the reduction of risk associated with greater adherence to international recommen- dations on diet and physical exercise for breast, prostate and colorectal tumours, the relationship be- tween trihalomethanes and breast and colorectal cancers, the relationship between serological markers of Helicobacter pylori and gastric and colorectal cancer and the role of working night shifts in colon and rectal cancer The last meeting (10th encounter) was held from 17th to 18th October in Alcalá de Henares The aim of the event, which was attended by 40 researchers from 14 CIBERESP groups, was to update the projects under way, including the monitoring study of these cases in order to research into the prognostic role of many of the exposures analysed, as well as the consideration of future lines This was also attend- ed by two guests: Dr Richard Martin, professor of Clinical Epidemiology of Bristol University, who gave the lecture entitled “Using genomic data to inform prostate cancer prevention and treatment strategies” and Dr Ángel Lanas, Scienti c Director of the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón, who presented the lecture “Aspirin and colon cancer: from investigation to prevention”
GENRISK
A collaborative Intranet was designed, registered with the domain genrisk org A face-to-face meeting of the interested groups was held on 4 July 2017 in Barcelona, attended by 27 persons from 19 groups with interest in the action Priority objectives and persons in charge of furthering these objectives were de ned In Granada on 24-25 November there was also an introductory course on statistical analysis of studies in genetic epidemiology, attended by 15 persons from 10 groups
* Until December the Coordinator was Marina Pollán Santamaría