The UCC has collaborated on projects aimed at identifying risk factors for breast cancer in women aged 50-69 years as a first step in establishing a risk model and implementing individual risk-based screening:
Estimation of individual breast cancer risk according to known female risk factors for personalization of population-based mammographic screening.
Funding Entity: FIS (PI17/00047)
Principal Investigator: Roman M
Collaborating Researcher: Vidal C
Project duration: 2018-2020
Benign breast lesions, breast density, and association with cancer risk in a cohort of screened women.
Financial institution: Hondo de Investigación Sanitaria (PI15/00098)
Principal Investigator: Castells X
Collaborating researcher: Benito L.
Project duration: 2016-2018
Determinants, evolution and biological characteristics of breast cancer diagnosed in a cohort of screened women.
Funding entity: FIS (PI11/01296).
Principal Investigator: Castells X.
Collaborating researchers: Benito L.
Project duration: 2012-2014
Variability of mammographic density in Spanish women: association with habits, reproductive factors and genetic determinants.
Principal Investigator: Gómez B
Collaborating Researcher: Vidal C
Funding Entity: FIS
Determinants of mammographic density in women participating in breast cancer screening programs in Spain.
Principal Investigator: Pollán M