Roca-Barceló, A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3681-6517
Viñas, G. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0459-573X
Pla, H.
Carbó, A.
Comas, R. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4115-5095
Izquierdo, Á. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2004-3246
Pinheiro, P. S. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8502-835X
Vilardell, L. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1228-914X
Solans, M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2397-0435
Marcos-Gragera, R. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9824-3657
Funding for this research was provided by:
CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP) through a pre-doctoral contract
Article History
Received: 20 June 2018
Accepted: 17 November 2018
First Online: 10 December 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study was in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: The Epidemiology Unit and Girona Cancer Registry (GCR) is a statistical unit part of the Pla estadístic de Catalunya approved to produce official estiamtes of cancer incidence and mortality. The GCR studies are except of inform consent as they involve large datasets, are retrospective and observational, characteristics that make consent impractical to collect. Nonetheless, security measures are taken accordingly in order to protect patient confidentiality.