Database: European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-Europe)
Database: European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-Europe)
About EPIC Europe study [1].
Primary purpose: The EPIC database primarily aims to study the impact of dietary, lifestyle, and environmental factors on the incidence of cancer and other chronic diseases across Europe.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London (United Kingdom). [2]
Type of information: Data Dictionary: European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-Europe). The sources can be checked in the link.
Source of Information: Data is collected via questionnaires and assessments from recruited participants.
Data level: Participant level.
Number of Records: 521,000 [3].
Date range: 1993 onwards.
Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms [4].
Data access: not publicly available. Instructions to access restricted content [5] [6].
Contact information: Information [7].