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Europe Against Cancer
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EPIC Centres - webpages
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Background
The master EPIC database
is hosted by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC,
Lyon France) and is responsible for the maintenance of the individual
(dietary, lifestyle) and follow-up data (cancer, mortality and other
endpoint data), collected from the different participating centres.
The IARC also hosts and maintains the EPIC biorepository containing
more than 6 million straws of plasma, serum, red cells and buffy
coats stored in liquid nitrogen containers. Different IARC teams
and groups are leading and involved in projects on diet, biomarkers
of diet, other lifestyle and genetic factors and cancer.
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Males |
Females |
Number of participants |
Percentage of cohort |
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153,451 |
368,032 |
521,483 |
100.00 |
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Scientists
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Dr Isabelle Romieu
(Principal Investigator)
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Nutrition and Metabolism Section
Lyon, France
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Dr Paul Brennan
(Section Head)
Genetics Section
Lyon, France
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Dr Pierre Hainaut
(Section Head)
Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis Section
Lyon, France
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Dr Zdenko Herceg
(Group Head)
Epigenetics Group
Lyon, France
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Research Activities
- Co-ordination of EPIC-Europe scientific research activity,
including working groups on specific
cancer sites and other methodological related issues
- Co-ordination of the master EPIC database including lifestyle and cancer and mortality endpoints
- Co-ordination of the EPIC biobank
- Studies on methodology and statistics
- Studies on diet and cancer
- Studies on hormones and other biomarkers and cancer
- Writing of papers, special reports and supplements to scientific journals
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Funding
Financial support is received from:
International Agency for Research on Cancer/World health Organization (IARC/WHO)
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