Samantha Morais

Investigador Doutorado Integrado

Samantha Morais é licenciada em Estudos de Ciência e Tecnologia (2010) pela York University no Canadá, e obteve o grau de mestre em Epidemiologia (2013) e doutoramento em Saúde Pública (2018) pela Universidade do Porto em Portugal. Para a sua tese de doutoramento (SFRH/BD/102585/2014), analisou os fatores sociodemográficos e clínicos que contribuem para o risco de um segundo cancro primário relacionado com o estômago e estimou o impacto desses cancros na sobrevivência a longo prazo dos doentes. Durante o seu pós-doutoramento no Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto, contribuiu para a concepção e implementação de estudos de coorte (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032358, ref. PTDC/SAU-EPI/32358/2017), e foi membro do projecto que analisou o impacto da pandemia COVID-19 em doentes com cancro no Porto, Portugal (Research 4 COVID 174_596850546). Foi Professora Auxiliar Convidada de Introdução à Epidemiologia e Fundamentos de Estatística da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, e (co-)orientou alunos de mestrado e doutoramento. Os seus interesses de investigação passam pela epidemiologia do cancro e saúde pública, com um foco especial na carga de doença associada ao cancro.
É atualmente investigadora de pós-doutoramento no Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology da McGill University. Ingressou na Division of Cancer Epidemiology at McGill em setembro de 2021 e auxilia o programa de investigação da Divisão sobre infecção por papilomavírus humano e cancros associados.
É colaboradora do Laboratório de Epidemiologia do Cancro no Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional.

Projetos de investigação nacionais

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2022

Morais S , Costa A , Albuquerque AG , Araújo N , Pelucchi C, Rabkin CS, Liao LM, Sinha R, Zhang ZF, Hu J, Johnson KC, Palli D, Ferraroni M, Bonzi R, Yu GP, López-Carrillo L, Malekzadeh R, Tsugane S, Hidaka A, Hamada GS, Zaridze D, Maximovitch D, Vioque J, de la Hera MG, Moreno V, Vanaclocha-Espi M, Ward MH, Pakseresht M, Hernández-Ramirez RU, López-Cervantes M, Pourfarzi F, Mu L, Kurtz RC, Boccia S, Pastorino R, Lagiou A, Lagiou P, Boffetta P, Camargo MC, Curado MP, Negri E, La Vecchia C , Lunet N

Salt intake and gastric cancer: a pooled analysis within the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project

Cancer Causes Control, 2022 Mar 19. doi: 10.1007/s10552-022-01565-y. Online ahead of print.

2022

Araújo N , Costa A , Lopes C , Lopes-Conceição L , Ferreira A, Carneiro F, Oliveira J , Morais S , Tedim Cruz V , Pacheco-Figueiredo L , Ruano L , Pereira S , Lunet N

Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment before Prostate Cancer Treatment

Cancers (Basel), 2022 Mar 7;14(5):1355. doi: 10.3390/cancers14051355.

2022

Araújo N , Costa A , Lopes-Conceição L , Ferreira A , Carneiro F , Oliveira J , Braga I , Morais S , Pacheco-Figueiredo L , Ruano L , Tedim Cruz V , Pereira S , Lunet N

Androgen-deprivation therapy and cognitive decline in the NEON-PC prospective study during the COVID-19 pandemic

ESMO Open, 2022 Mar 7;7(2):100448. doi: 10.1016/j.esmoop.2022.100448. Online ahead of print.

2022

Morais S , Costa A , Albuquerque AG , Araújo N , Tsugane S, Hidaka A, Hamada GS, Ye W, Plymoth A, Leja M, Gasenko E, Zaridze D, Maximovich D, Malekzadeh R, Derakhshan MH, Pelucchi C, Negri E, Camargo MC, Curado MP, Vioque J, Zhang ZF, La Vecchia C, Boffetta P , Lunet N

"True" Helicobacter pylori infection and non-cardia gastric cancer: A pooled analysis within the Stomach Cancer Pooling (StoP) Project

Helicobacter, 2022 Mar 2;e12883. doi: 10.1111/hel.12883. Online ahead of print.

2022

Dalmartello M, Turati F, Zhang ZF , Lunet N , Rota M, Bonzi R, Galeone C, Martimianaki G, Palli D, Ferraroni M, Yu GP , Morais S , Malekzadeh R, López-Carrillo L, Zaridze D, Maximovitch D, Aragonés N, Fernández-Tardón G, Martin V, Vioque J, Garcia de la Hera M, Curado MP, Coimbra FJF, Assumpcao P, Pakseresht M, Hu J, Hernández-Ramírez RU, Ward MH, Pourfarzi F, Mu L, Tsugane S, Hidaka A, Lagiou P, Lagiou A, Trichopoulou A, Karakatsani A, Boffetta P, Camargo MC, Negri E, La Vecchia C, Pelucchi C

Allium vegetables intake and the risk of gastric cancer in the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project

Br J Cancer, 2022 Feb 24. doi: 10.1038/s41416-022-01750-5. Online ahead of print.

2022

Morais S , Peleteiro B , Araújo N , Malekzadeh R, Ye W, Plymoth A, Tsugane S, Hidaka A, Hamada GS, López-Carrillo L, Zaridze D, Maximovich D, Aragonés N, Castaño-Vinyals G, Pakseresht M, Hernández-Ramírez RU, López-Cervantes M, Leja M, Gasenko E, Pourfarzi F, Zhang ZF, Yu GP, Derakhshan MH, Pelucchi C, Negri E, La Vecchia C , Lunet N

Identifying the Profile of Helicobacter pylori-Negative Gastric Cancers: A Case-Only Analysis within the Stomach Cancer Pooling (StoP) Project

Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 2022 Jan;31(1):200-209. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-21-0402. Epub 2021 Nov 2.

2021

Araújo N , Lopes-Conceição L , Morais S , Fontes F , Dias T , Tedim Cruz V , Ruano L , Pereira S , Lunet N

Interchangeability of two versions of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment for the longitudinal evaluation of patients with breast cancer

Support Care Cancer, 2021 Nov 24. doi: 10.1007/s00520-021-06702-y. Online ahead of print.

2021

Brandão M , Guisseve A , Damasceno A , Bata G, Silva-Matos C, Alberto M, FerroJ, Garcia C, Zaqueu C, Lorenzoni C, Leitão D, Soares O, Gudo-Morais A, Schmitt F , Morais S , Tulsidas S , Carrilho C , Lunet N

Risk Factors for Breast Cancer, Overall and by Tumor Subtype, among Women from Mozambique, Sub-Saharan Africa

Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 2021 Apr 13;cebp.1730.2020

2021

Brandão M , Morais S , Guisseve A, Bata G, Borges M , Tulsidas S , Pereira S , Carrilho C , Lunet N

Comparing the cost of non-metastatic breast cancer care in a low-income vs a high-income country: A plea for an optimal allocation of health resources in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Breast, 2021 Feb 22;57:1-4. doi: 10.1016/j.breast.2021.02.010. Online ahead of print.

2021

Araújo N , Morais S , Costa AR , Braga R , Carneiro AF , Tedim Cruz V , Ruano L , Oliveira J, Figueiredo LP , Pereira S , Lunet N

Cognitive decline in patients with prostate cancer: study protocol of a prospective cohort, NEON-PC.

BMJ Open, 2021 Feb 15;11(2):e043844. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043844.

2021

Martimianaki G, Bertuccio P, Alicandro G, Pelucchi C, Bravi F, Carioli G, Bonzi R, Rabkin CS, Liao LM, Sinha R, Johnson K, Hu J, Palli D, Ferraroni M , Lunet N , Morais S , Tsugane S, Hidaka A, Hamada GS, López-Carrillo L, Hernández-Ramírez RU, Zaridze D, Maximovitch D, Aragonés N, Martin V, Ward MH, Vioque J, Garcia de la Hera M, Zhan

Coffee consumption and gastric cancer: a pooled analysis from the Stomach cancer Pooling Project consortium.

Eur J Cancer Prev, 2021 Sep 17. doi: 10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000680. Online ahead of print.

2021

Morais S , Antunes L , Rodrigues J , Fontes F , Bento MJ , Lunet N

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer screening.

Eur J Cancer Prev, 2021 Aug 26. doi: 10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000720. Online ahead of print.

2021

Vitelli-Storelli F, Rubín-García M, Pelucchi C, Benavente Y, Bonzi R, Rota M, Palli D, Ferraroni M , Lunet N , Morais S , Ye W, Plymoth A, Malekzadeh R, Tsugane S, Hidaka A, Aragonés N, Castaño-Vinyals G, Zaridze DG, Maximovich D, Vioque J, García-de-la-Hera M, Zhang ZF, Shigueaki Hamada G, P

Family History and Gastric Cancer Risk: A Pooled Investigation in the Stomach Cancer Pooling (STOP) Project Consortium.

Cancers (Basel), 2021 Jul 30;13(15):3844. doi: 10.3390/cancers13153844.

2021

Morais S , Antunes L , Rodrigues J , Fontes F , Bento MJ , Lunet N

The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in Northern Portugal

Eur J Cancer Prev, 2021 Jul 8. doi: 10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000686. Online ahead of print.

2021

Araújo N , Severo M , Conceição L , Fontes F , Dias T , Branco M , Morais S , Tedim Cruz V , Ruano L , Pereira S , Lunet N

Trajectories of cognitive performance over five years in a prospective cohort of patients with breast cancer (NEON-BC).

Breast, 2021 May 15;58:130-137. doi: 10.1016/j.breast.2021.05.006. Online ahead of print.

2021

Guedes-Estevez E , Costa AR , Moura-Ferreira P , Lunet N , Morais S

Regular physical activity-related awareness and knowledge in Portugal: results from a population-based survey.

Porto Biomedical Journal, 2021 Apr 13;6(2):e130. doi: 10.1097/j.pbj.0000000000000130. eCollection Mar-Apr 2021.

2021

Morais S , Antunes L , Rodrigues J , Fontes F , Bento MJ , Lunet N

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the short-term survival of patients with cancer in Northern Portugal.

Int J Cancer, 2021 Feb 26. doi: 10.1002/ijc.33532. Online ahead of print.

2020

Brandão M , Morais S , Lopes-Conceição L , Fontes F , Araújo N , Dias T, Pereira D, Borges M , Pereira S , Lunet N

Healthcare use and costs in early breast cancer: a patient-level data analysis according to stage and breast cancer subtype.

ESMO Open, 2020 Nov;5(6):e000984. doi: 10.1136/esmoopen-2020-000984.

2020

Vitelli-Storelli F, Rossi M, Pelucchi C, Rota M, Palli D, Ferraroni M , Lunet N , Morais S , López-Carrillo L, Zaridze DG, Maximovich D, Rubín García M, Castaño-Vinyals G, Aragonés N, Garcia de la Hera M, Hernández-Ramírez RU, Negri E,

Polyphenol Intake and Gastric Cancer Risk: Findings from the Stomach Cancer Pooling Project (StoP).

Cancers (Basel), 2020 Oct 20;12(10):E3064. doi: 10.3390/cancers12103064.

2020

Ferro A , Costa AR , Morais S , Bertuccio P, Rota M, Pelucchi C, Hu J, Johnson KC, Zhang ZF, Palli D, Ferraroni M, Yu GP, Bonzi R , Peleteiro B , López-Carrillo L, Tsugane S, Hamada GS, Hidaka A, Malekzadeh R, Zaridze D, Maximovitch D, Vioque J, Navarrete-Munoz EM, Alguacil J, Castaño-Vinyals G, Wolk A, Håkansson N, , Lunet N

Fruits and Vegetables Intake and Gastric Cancer Risk: A Pooled Analysis Within the Stomach Cancer Pooling (StoP) Project.

Int J Cancer, 2020 Jun 11. doi: 10.1002/ijc.33134. Online ahead of print.