Background Prior epidemiologic studies on the association between diabetes and gastric cancer risk provided inconclusive findings, while traditional, aggregate data meta-analyses were characterized by high between-study heterogeneity. Objective To investigate the association between type 2 diabetes and gastric cancer using data from the 'Stomach Cancer Pooling (StoP) Project', an international consortium of mor...
The assessment of risk factors in cancer etiology is necessary for defining optimal preventive strategies, as well as for identifying high risk individuals, and it is therefore relevant for medical practice and cancer prevention. The Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project is a consortium of epidemiological studies of gastric cancer (GC), established in year 2012. The StoP Project aims to examine the role of life...