Database: European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-Europe)

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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 [1].

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: respondent 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].