About the Authors

Nuria Vives

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cancer Screening Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, Early Detection of Cancer Research Group, EPIBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

Carmen Vidal

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cancer Screening Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, Early Detection of Cancer Research Group, EPIBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBEResp), Madrid, Spain

Ena Niño de Guzman

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cancer Screening Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, Early Detection of Cancer Research Group, EPIBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

Albert Farre

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Jon Aritz Panera

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cancer Screening Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, Early Detection of Cancer Research Group, EPIBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

Gemma Binefa

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cancer Screening Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, Early Detection of Cancer Research Group, EPIBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBEResp), Madrid, Spain

Montse Garcia

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mgarcia@iconcologia.net

Affiliations Cancer Screening Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, Early Detection of Cancer Research Group, EPIBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBEResp), Madrid, Spain

on behalf of the M-TICS research group

Membership of the M-TICS research group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.