Researchers of the Colorectal Cancer research group of Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute , led by Dr. Victor Moreno, and linked to the Catalan Institute of Oncology , the University of Barcelona and the Epidemiology and Public Health CIBER , have issued the first predictive risk model of colon and rectal cancer based on Spanish data that combines genetic and lifestyle information. Their work, published by Scientific Reports , highlights the importance of improving lifestyle to reduce the risk of colon cancer and suggests to use a combination of lifestyle and genetic information to subdivide the population into different groups according to their colon cancer risk, which would fine tune the current screening method.