Table 1.

Summary of the number of associations between selected variables and cancer types (comorbidities in blue, ethnicity in yellow, behavioural in orange, and age and frailty in green). Note that the term ‘Protective factor’ does not have a biological or medical meaning, but rather is an epidemiological term to represent a negative association between the factor and the likelihood to be diagnosed with cancer. Time accounts for the presence of temporal trends. When Time is a risk factor, it means that from 2017 to 2022 there was an increase in cancer risk for those cancers that had time as important factor (breast, colorectal and urology).