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. Click here to learn more.

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). Click here to learn more

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. Click here to learn more.

Date range: 1993 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more.

Data access: not publicly available. Click here to access. Instructions to access restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.