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Wu J, Pisa F, Izem R, Sultana J, Jones C, Garcia-Albeniz X, Bratton E. Real World Evidence (RWE) generation for rare diseases drug development: data sources and innovated methods. Presented at the 2020 36th ICPE International Virtual Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology & Therapeutic Risk Management; September 2020.

Petito LC, Garcia-Albeniz X, Logan RW, Howlader N, Mariotto AB, Dahabreh IJ, Hernan MA. Estimates of overall survival in patients with cancer receiving different treatment regimens: emulating hypothetical target trials in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)–Medicare linked database. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Mar 2;3(3):e200452. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.0452

Garcia-Albeniz X, Hernan MA, Logan RW, Price M, Armstrong K, Hsu J. Continuation of annual screening mammography and breast cancer mortality in women older than 70 years. Ann Intern Med. 2020 Feb 25;172:381-9. doi: 10.7326/M18-1199

Garcia-Albeniz X, Alonso V, Escudero P, Méndez M, Gallego J, Rodríguez JR, Salud A, Fernández-Plana J, Manzano H, Zanui M, Falcó E, Feliu J, Gil M, Fernández-Martos C, Bohn U, Alonso C, Calderero V, Rojo F, Cuatrecasas M, Maurel J. Prospective biomarker study in advanced RAS wild‐type colorectal cancer: POSIBA Trial (GEMCAD 10‐02). Oncologist. 2019 Nov;24(11):e1115-22. doi: 10.1634/theoncologist.2018-0728

Garcia-Albeniz X, Hsu J, Bretthauer M, Hernan MA. Estimating the effect of preventive services with databases of administrative claims: reasons to be concerned. Am J Epidemiol. 2019 Oct;188(10):1764-7. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwz049

Dickerman BA, Garcia-Albeniz X, Logan RW, Denaxas S, Hernan MA. Avoidable flaws in observational analyses: an application to statins and cancer. Nat Med. 2019 Oct;25(10):1601-6. doi: 10.1038/s41591-019-0597-x

Garcia de Albeniz X, Hernan M, Logan R, Price M, Hsu J. Continuation of annual screening mammograms and breast-cancer mortality in women over 70. Poster presented at the ESMO 2019 Congress; September 27, 2019. Barcelona, Spain.

Fernandez-Martos C, Pericay C, Losa F, Garcia-Carbonero R, Layos L, Rodriguez-Salas N, Martin-Richard M, Alonso-Orduna V, Vera R, Gallegeo J, Capdevila J, Salud A, Nogue M, Maurel J, Guash I, Montagut C, Lopez C, Macias I, Jain RK, Garcia-Albeniz X. Effect of aflibercept plus modified FOLFOX6 induction chemotherapy before standard chemoradiotherapy and surgery in patients with high-risk rectal adenocarcinoma: the GEMCAD 1402 randomized clinical trial. JAMA Oncol. 2019 Aug 29;5(11):1566-73. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.2294

Garcia-Albeniz X, Hsu J, Hernan MA. A challenge of real world data: How to assign individuals to a treatment strategy when their data are consistent with several treatment strategies at baseline. Presented at the 35th ICPE International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology & Therapeutic Risk Management; August 27, 2019. Philadelphia, PA. [abstract] Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2019 Aug 20; 28(S2):476. doi: 10.1002/pds.4864

Zhou CK, Dinh J, Danysh HE, Johannes C, Gutierrez L, Schmid R, Arana A, Kaye JA, Pladevall-Vila M, Garcia-Albeniz X, Gangemi K, Yin R, Ruzafa JC, Gilsenan A, Beachler DC. Validity of claims-based algorithms to identify acute kidney injury, acute liver injury, severe complications of urinary tract infections, breast cancer, and bladder cancer among patients with type 2 diabetes: a pilot study. Poster presented at the 35th ICPE International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology & Therapeutic Risk Management; August 26, 2019. Philadelphia, PA. [abstract] Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2019 Aug 20; 28(S2):317. doi: 10.1002/pds.4864

Song LD, Newhouse JP, Garcia-De-Albeniz X, Hsu J. Changes in screening colonoscopy following Medicare reimbursement and cost-sharing changes. Health Serv Res. 2019 Aug;54(4):839-50. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13150

Garcia de Albeniz X. How to analyze and interpret randomized clinical trials: intention-to-treat vs. per-protocol analysis. Presented at the Spanish Multidisciplinary Research Group on Digestive Cancers; April 4, 2019. Madrid, Spain.

Garcia de Albeniz X. Pros of the per-protocol analysis. When and why not to use an intention-to-treat analysis. Presented at the Spanish Multidisciplinary Research Group on Digestive Cancers; April 4, 2019. Madrid, Spain.

Osorio J, Jerico C, Miranda C, Garsot E, Luna A, Miro M, Santamaria M, Artigau E, Rodriguez-Santiago J, Castro S, Feliu J, Aldeano A, Olona C, Momblan D, Ruiz D, Galofre G, Pros I, Garcia-Albeniz X, Lozano M, Pera M. Perioperative transfusion management in gastric cancer surgery: analysis of the Spanish subset of the EURECCA oesophago-gastric cancer registry. Cir Esp. 2018 Nov;96(9):546-54. doi: 10.1016/j.ciresp.2018.03.010

Garcia-Albeniz X, Hsu J, Hernan MA. A word of caution: all-cause mortality and residual confounding in Medicare claims data. Poster presented at the 34th ICPE International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology & Therapeutic Risk Management; August 26, 2018. Prague, Czech Republic. [abstract] Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2018 Aug; 27(S2):343. doi: 10.1002/pds.4629

Alonso V, Escudero P, Fernandez-Martos C, Salud A, Mendez M, Gallego J, Rodriguez JR, Martin-Richard M, Fernandez-Plana J, Manzano H, Mendez JC, Zanui M, Falco E, Gil-Raga M, Rojo F, Cuatrecasas M, Feliu J, Garcia-Albeniz X, Maurel J. Coexpression of p-IGF-1R and MMP-7 modulates panitumumab and cetuximab efficacy in RAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer patients. Neoplasia. 2018 Jul;20(7):678-86. doi: 10.1016/j.neo.2018.05.004

Jackson JW, Garcia-Albeniz X. Studying the effects of nonindicated medications on cancer: etiologic versus action-focused analysis of epidemiologic data. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2018 May;27(5):520-4. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-17-0862

Emilsson L, Garcia-Albeniz X, Logan RW, Caniglia EC, Kalager M, Hernan MA. Examining bias in studies of statin treatment and survival in patients with cancer. JAMA Oncol. 2018 Jan 1;4(1):63-70. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2017.2752

Fernandez-Martos C, Pericay C, Losa F, Garcia-Carbonero R, Layos L, Rodriguez Salas N, Martin M, Alonso V, Vera R, Gallego J, Capdevila J, Salud A, Nogue M, Maurel J, Guasch I, Montagut Viladot C, Lopez-Lopez C, Canas MA, Declara IM, Garcia-Albeniz X. Randomized phase II study comparing induction (I) mFOLFOX6 with or without aflibercept followed by chemoradiation (CRT) and total mesorectal excision (TME) in high risk-rectal cancer. GEMCAD 14-02 trial. Poster presented at the 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting; June 3, 2018. Chicago, IL. [abstract] J Clin Oncol. 2018; 36(2018):e3518.

Codony-Servat J, Cuatrecasas M, Asensio E, Montironi C, Martinez-Cardus A, Marin-Aguilera M, Horndler C, Martinez-Balibrea E, Rubini M, Jares P, Reig O, Victoria I, Gaba L, Martin-Richard M, Alonso V, Escudero P, Fernandez-Martos C, Feliu J, Mendez JC, Mendez M, Gallego J, Salud A, Rojo F, Castells A, Prat A, Rosell R, Garcia-Albeniz X, Camps J, Maurel J. Nuclear IGF-1R predicts chemotherapy and targeted therapy resistance in metastatic colorectal cancer. Br J Cancer. 2017 Dec 5;117(12):1777-86. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2017.279.

Garcia-Albeniz X. Modeling to study the best timing for salvage ADT after RT data and analysis issues. Presented at the 2017 CISNET Prostate Cancer Modelling Symposium; November 3, 2017. Rockville, MD.

Garcia-De-Albeniz X. Effectiveness of screening colonoscopy to prevent CRC among Medicare beneficiaries aged 70-79 years. Behind the scenes. Presented at the Massachusetts General Hospital Seminar; October 5, 2017. Boston, MA.

Garcia-Albeniz X, Hsu J, Hernan MA. The value of explicitly emulating a target trial when using real world evidence: an application to colorectal cancer screening. Eur J Epidemiol. 2017 Jun;32(6):495-500. doi: 10.1007/s10654-017-0287-2

Pineda E, Salud A, Vila-Navarro E, Safont MJ, Llorente B, Aparicio J, Vera R, Escudero P, Casado E, Bosch C, Bohn U, Perez-Carrion R, Carmona A, Ayuso JR, Ripolles T, Bouzas R, Gironella M, Garcia-Albeniz X, Feliu J, Maurel J. Dynamic soluble changes in sVEGFR1, HGF, and VEGF promote chemotherapy and bevacizumab resistance: A prospective translational study in the BECOX (GEMCAD 09-01) trial. Tumour Biol. 2017 Jun;39(6). doi: 10.1177/1010428317705509

Garcia-De-Albeniz XA. Effectiveness of screening colonoscopy to prevent colorectal cancer among Medicare beneficiaries aged 70 to 79 years - behind the scenes. Presented at the Winter 2017 Epidemiology Seminar Series at McGill University's Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health; February 20, 2017. Montreal, Canada. Previously presented at the 2017 Program on Biostatistics for Cancer Research at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Garcia-Albeniz X, Hsu J, Bretthauer M, Hernan MA. Effectiveness of screening colonoscopy to prevent colorectal cancer among Medicare beneficiaries aged 70-79 years: a prospective observational study. Ann Intern Med. 2017 Jan 3;166(1):18-26.

Garcia-Albeniz X. Effectiveness of screening colonoscopy to prevent colorectal cancer among Medicare beneficiaries aged 70 to 79 years - behind the scenes. Presented at the 2017 Program on Biostatistics for Cancer Research at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; 2017. Cambridge, MA.

Rodriguez-Salas N, Dominguez G, Barderas R, Mendiola M, Garcia-Albeniz X, Maurel J, Batlle JF. Clinical relevance of colorectal cancer molecular subtypes. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol. 2017 Jan;109:9-19. doi: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2016.11.007

Caballero-Banos M, Benitez-Ribas D, Tabera J, Varea S, Vilana R, Bianchi L, Ayuso JR, Pages M, Carrera G, Cuatrecasas M, Martin-Richard M, Cid J, Lozano M, Castells A, Garcia-Albeniz X, Maurel J, Vilella R. Phase II randomised trial of autologous tumour lysate dendritic cell plus best supportive care compared with best supportive care in pre-treated advanced colorectal cancer patients. Eur J Cancer. 2016 Sep;64:167-74. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2016.06.008

Garcia-Albeniz X, Hsu J, Lipsitch M, Bretthauer M, Logan RW, Hernandez-Diaz S, Hernan MA. Colonoscopy and risk of infective endocarditis in the elderly. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2016 Aug 2;68(5):570-1. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.05.041

Maurel J, Lopez-Pousa A, Calabuig S, Bague S, Del Muro XG, Sanjuan X, Rubio-Casadevall J, Cuatrecasas M, Martinez-Trufero J, Horndler C, Fra J, Valverde C, Redondo A, Poveda A, Sevilla I, Lainez N, Rubini M, Garcia-Albeniz X, Martin-Broto J, de Alava E. Phosphorylated-insulin growth factor I receptor (p-IGF1R) and metalloproteinase-3 (MMP3) expression in advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST). A GEIS 19 study. Clin Sarcoma Res. 2016 Jun 29;6:10. doi: 10.1186/s13569-016-0050-6

Garcia-Albeniz X. CIBERESP workshop. Presented at the 2016 Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red, Epidemiology and Public Health Section Meeting; June 29, 2016. Madrid, Spain.

Maurel J, Fernandez-Martos C, Martin-Richard M, Alonso V, Mendez JC, Salud A, Pericay C, Aparicio J, Gallego J, Carmona A, Casado E, Manzano H, Horndler C, Rubini M, Cuatrecasas M, Garcia-Albeniz X, Feliu J. Prospective biomarker validation trial evaluating the prognostic role of the combined expression of phospho-insulin growth factor receptor-1 and matrilysin in KRAS (exon 2) wild-type (WT) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients treated with FOLFOX-6 plus panitumumab as first-line therapy [PULSE trial (GEMCAD 09-03)]. Poster presented at the 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting; January 23, 2016. Chicago, IL. [abstract] J Clin Oncol. 2016 Feb; 34(4_Suppl):583. doi: 10.1200/jco.2016.34.4_suppl.583

Garcia-Albeniz X, Rudolph A, Hutter C, White E, Lin Y, Rosse SA, Figueiredo JC, Harrison TA, Jiao S, Brenner H, Casey G, Hudson TJ, Thornquist M, Le Marchand L, Potter J, Slattery ML, Zanke B, Baron JA, Caan BJ, Chanock SJ, Berndt SI, Stelling D, Fuchs CS, Hoffmeister M, Butterbach K, Du M, James Gauderman W, Gunter MJ, Lemire M, Ogino S, Lin J, Hayes RB, Haile RW, Schoen RE, Warnick GS, Jenkins MA, Thibodeau SN, Schumacher FR, Lindor NM, Kolonel LN, Hopper JL, Gong J, Seminara D, Pflugeisen BM, Ulrich CM, Qu C, Duggan D, Cotterchio M, Campbell PT, Carlson CS, Newcomb PA, Giovannucci E, Hsu L, Chan AT, Peters U, Chang-Claude J. CYP24A1 variant modifies the association between use of oestrogen plus progestogen therapy and colorectal cancer risk. Br J Cancer. 2016 Jan 19;114(2):221-9. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2015.443

Climent M, Hidalgo N, Vidal O, Puig S, Iglesias M, Cuatrecasas M, Ramon JM, Garcia-Albeniz X, Grande L, Pera M. Postoperative complications do not impact on recurrence and survival after curative resection of gastric cancer. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2016 Jan;42(1):132-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2015.08.163

Garcia-Albeniz X, Hsu J, Lipsitch M, Logan RW, Hernandez-Díaz S, Hernan MA. Infective endocarditis and cancer in the elderly. Eur J Epidemiol. 2016 Jan;31(1):41-9. doi: 10.1007/s10654-015-0111-9

Valeri L, Chen JT, Garcia-Albeniz X, Krieger N, VanderWeele TJ, Coull BA. The role of stage at diagnosis in colorectal cancer black-white survival disparities: a counterfactual causal inference approach. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2016 Jan;25(1):83-9. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-15-0456

Aranda E, Aparicio J, Alonso V, Garcia-Albeniz X, Garcia-Alfonso P, Salazar R, Valladares M, Vera R, Vieitez JM, Garcia-Carbonero R. SEOM clinical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer 2015. Clin Transl Oncol. 2015 Dec;17(12):972-81. doi: 10.1007/s12094-015-1434-4

Pavlovic M, Arnal-Estape A, Rojo F, Bellmunt A, Tarragona M, Guiu M, Planet E, Garcia-Albeniz X, Morales M, Urosevic J, Gawrzak S, Rovira A, Prat A, Nonell L, Lluch A, Jean-Mairet J, Coleman R, Albanell J, Gomis RR. Enhanced MAF oncogene expression and breast cancer bone metastasis. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2015 Sep 15;107(12):djv256. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djv256

Rubio-Casadevall J, Martinez-Trufero J, Garcia-Albeniz X, Calabuig S, Lopez-Pousa A, Del Muro JG, Fra J, Redondo A, Lainez N, Poveda A, Valverde C, De Juan A, Sevilla I, Casado A, Andres R, Cruz J, Martin-Broto J, Maurel J, Spanish Group for Research on Sarcoma. Role of surgery in patients with recurrent, metastatic, or unresectable locally advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors sensitive to imatinib: a retrospective analysis of the Spanish Group for Research on Sarcoma (GEIS). Ann Surg Oncol. 2015 Sep;22(9):2948-57. doi: 10.1245/s10434-014-4360-8

Fernandez-Martos C, Garcia-Albeniz X, Pericay C, Maurel J, Aparicio J, Montagut C, Safont MJ, Salud A, Vera R, Massuti B, Escudero P, Alonso V, Bosch C, Martin M, Minsky BD. Chemoradiation, surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy versus induction chemotherapy followed by chemoradiation and surgery: long-term results of the Spanish GCR-3 phase II randomized trial. Ann Oncol. 2015 Aug;26(8):1722-8. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdv223

Garcia-Albeniz X, Maurel J, Hernan MA. Why post-progression survival and post-relapse survival are not appropriate measures of efficacy in cancer randomized clinical trials. Int J Cancer. 2015 May 15;136(10):2444-7. doi: 10.1002/ijc.29278

Garcia-Albeniz X, Chan JM, Paciorek A, Logan RW, Kenfield SA, Cooperberg MR, Carroll PR, Hernan MA. Immediate vs. deferred initiation of androgen deprivation therapy in prostate cancer patients with PSA-only relapse. An observational follow-up study. Eur J Cancer. 2015 May;51(7):817-24. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2015.03.003

Garcia-Albeniz X, Gallego R, Hofheinz RD, Fernandez-Esparrach G, Ayuso-Colella JR, Bombí JA, Conill C, Cuatrecasas M, Delgado S, Gines A, Miquel R, Pages M, Pineda E, Pereira Y, Sosa A, Reig O, Victoria I, Feliz L, María de Lacy A, Castells A, Burkholder I, Hochhaus A, Maurel J. Adjuvant therapy sparing in rectal cancer achieving complete response after chemoradiation. World J Gastroenterol. 2014 Nov 14;20(42):15820-9. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i42.15820

Garcia-Albeniz X, Logan RW, Schrag D, Hernan MA. Evaluation of the duplication of staging CT scans for localized colon cancer in a Medicare population. Med Care. 2014 Nov;52(11):963-8. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000231

Alonso-Espinaco V, Cuatrecasas M, Alonso V, Escudero P, Marmol M, Horndler C, Ortego J, Gallego R, Codony-Servat J, Garcia-Albeniz X, Jares P, Castells A, Lozano JJ, Rosell R, Maurel J. RAC1b overexpression correlates with poor prognosis in KRAS/BRAF WT metastatic colorectal cancer patients treated with first-line FOLFOX/XELOX chemotherapy. Eur J Cancer. 2014 Jul;50(11):1973-81. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2014.04.019

Urosevic J, Garcia-Albeniz X, Planet E, Real S, Cespedes MV, Guiu M, Fernandez E, Bellmunt A, Gawrzak S, Pavlovic M, Mangues R, Dolado I, Barriga FM, Nadal C, Kemeny N, Batlle E, Nebreda AR, Gomis RR. Colon cancer cells colonize the lung from established liver metastases through p38 MAPK signalling and PTHLH. Nat Cell Biol. 2014 Jul;16(7):685-94. doi: 10.1038/ncb2977

Garcia-Albeniz X, Chan JM, Paciorek AT, Logan RW, Kenfield SA, Cooperberg MR, Caroll P, Hernan M. Immediate versus deferred initiation of androgen deprivation therapy in prostate cancer patients with PSA-only relapse. An observational follow-up study. Presented at the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting; June 1, 2014. Chicago, IL.

Maclean EN, Stone IS, Ceelen F, Garcia-Albeniz X, Sommer WH, Petersen SE. Reporting standards in cardiac MRI, CT, and SPECT diagnostic accuracy studies: analysis of the impact of STARD criteria. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014 Jun;15(6):691-700. doi: 10.1093/ehjci/jet277

Mehta RS, Song M, Bezawada N, Wu K, Garcia-Albeniz X, Morikawa T, Fuchs CS, Ogino S, Giovannucci EL, Chan AT. A prospective study of macrophage inhibitory cytokine-1 (MIC-1/GDF15) and risk of colorectal cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2014 Apr;106(4):dju016. doi: 10.1093/jnci/dju016