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Nuria Vives   ^{1, 2} , MPH ;   Gemma Binefa   ^{1, 2, 3} , PhD ;   Noemie Travier   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Albert Farre   ⁴ , PhD ;   Jon Aritz Panera   ^{1, 2} , BMATH ;   Berta Casas   ^{1, 2} , BS ;   Carmen Vidal   ^{1, 2, 3} , MPH ;   Gemma Ibáñez-Sanz   ^{5, 6} , PhD ;   Montse Garcia   ^{1, 2, 3} , PhD ;   M-TICS research group   ⁷

¹ Catalan Institut of Oncology, Hospitalet del Llobregat, Spain

² Early Detection of Cancer Research Group, Epidemiology, Public Health, Cancer Prevention and Palliative Cures Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Hospitalet del Llobregat, Spain

³ Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBEResp), Madrid, Spain

⁴ School of Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

⁵ Gastroenterology Department, Bellvitge University Hospital, Hospitalet del Llobregat, Spain

⁶ Colorectal Cancer Group, Molecular Mechanisms and Experimental Therapeutics in Oncology Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Hospitalet del Llobregat, Spain

⁷ see Acknowledgments