The mediating role of combined lifestyle factors on the relationship between education and gastric cancer in the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project.
Gianfranco AlicandroPaola BertuccioGiulia CollatuzzoClaudio PelucchiRossella BonziLinda M LiaoCharles S RabkinRashmi SinhaEva NegriMichela DalmartelloDavid ZaridzeDmitry MaximovichJesús VioqueManoli Garcia de la HeraShoichiro TsuganeAkihisa HidakaGerson Shigueaki HamadaLizbeth López-CarrilloRaúl Ulises Hernández-RamírezReza MalekzadehFarhad PourfarziZuo-Feng ZhangRobert C KurtzM Constanza CamargoMaria Paula CuradoNuno LunetPaolo BoffettaCarlo La VecchiaPublished in: British journal of cancer (2022)
The mediation effect of the combined lifestyle factors on the relationship between education and GC is modest. Other potential pathways explaining that relationship warrants further investigation.