Education and gastric cancer risk—An individual participant data meta‐analysis in the StoP project consortium

• Published in: International journal of cancer Vol. 146; no. 3; pp. 671 - 681
• Main Authors: Rota, Matteo, Alicandro, Gianfranco, Pelucchi, Claudio, Bonzi, Rossella, Bertuccio, Paola, Hu, Jinfu, Zhang, Zuo‐Feng, Johnson, Kenneth C., Palli, Domenico, Ferraroni, Monica, Yu, Guo‐Pei, Galeone, Carlotta, López‐Carrillo, Lizbeth, Muscat, Joshua, Lunet, Nuno, Ferro, Ana, Ye, Weimin, Plymoth, Amelie, Malekzadeh, Reza, Zaridze, David, Maximovitch, Dmitry, Kogevinas, Manolis, Fernández de Larrea, Nerea, Vioque, Jesus, Navarrete‐Muñoz, Eva M., Tsugane, Shoichiro, Hamada, Gerson S., Hidaka, Akihisa, Pakseresht, Mohammadreza, Wolk, Alicja, Håkansson, Niclas, Hernández‐Ramírez, Raúl Ulises, López‐Cervantes, Malaquias, Ward, Mary, Pourfarzi, Farhad, Mu, Lina, Kurtz, Robert C., Lagiou, Areti, Lagiou, Pagona, Boffetta, Paolo, Boccia, Stefania, Negri, Eva, La Vecchia, Carlo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.02.2020; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Asia - epidemiology; Cancer; Case-Control Studies; Datasets as Topic; Education; Educational Status; Europe - epidemiology; Family income; Female; Gastric cancer; Gastric Mucosa - microbiology; Health Status Disparities; Helicobacter Infections - epidemiology; Helicobacter pylori - isolation & purification; Humans; Incidence; income; Income - statistics & numerical data; Male; Medical research; Meta-analysis; Middle Aged; North America - epidemiology; Public health; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; socioeconomic inequalities; Stomach Neoplasms - epidemiology; Vulnerable Populations - statistics & numerical data; Asia; North America; Europe; income; risk factors; education; gastric cancer; socioeconomic inequalities

Low socioeconomic position (SEP) is a strong risk factor for incidence and premature mortality from several cancers. Our study aimed at quantifying the association between SEP and gastric cancer (GC) risk through an individual participant data meta‐analysis within the “Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP)...