Biobank: ATBC Study (Finland)

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Primary purpose: Store the sample collection and data information of participants from the study "The alpha-tocopherol, beta-carotene lung cancer prevention study": Design, methods, participant characteristics, and compliance.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: THL Biobank.

Type of information: Detailed information about participants, including physical description, smoking habits, health record, and others. There's also a sample collection from the participants at the THL Biobank [1].

Data level: patient level.

Number of Records: About 29,000.

Date Range: 1985 - 1993

Cancer Areas of Interest: lung cancer (C34.0 - C34.9 and C78.00 - C78.03).

Data access: partially publicly available [2]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [3].

Contact information: Information [4].