NCI Cohort Consortium
Overview
The NCI Cohort Consortium is an extramural-intramural partnership formed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to address the need for large-scale collaborations to pool the large quantity of data and biospecimens necessary to conduct a wide range of cancer studies. Through its collaborative network of investigators, the Consortium provides a coordinated, interdisciplinary approach to tackling important scientific questions, economies of scale, and opportunities to quicken the pace of research.
Upcoming Webinar
Push Button Data Sharing: Web-Based Self-Service and Automated Data Delivery in the California Teachers Study
The California Teachers Study (CTS), a cancer risk cohort study, has developed tools to automate data sharing. This webinar will provide a demonstration of those tools as well as an overview of the data and technology that those tools use.
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Featured Publication
The National Cancer Institute Cohort Consortium: An International Pooling Collaboration of 58 Cohorts from 20 Countries.
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Webinar Series
The purpose of the NCI Cohort Consortium Webinar Series is to share best practices for cancer epidemiology cohorts, identify challenges and share possible solutions, foster career development, and provide an opportunity to test out new ideas in a supportive environment. See upcoming webinars and watch recordings of previous webinars on our events page.
Figure: 60 Epidemiology Cohorts (36 in North America, 7 in Asia, 16 in Europe, and 1 in Australia; Two cohorts include study participants from both North America and Australia) with > 7 Million Participants (male, female, white, black, asian, hispanic); Biospecimens (inc. plasma/serum, saliva/buccal cells, urine, buffy coat/whole blood, tissues, and nails) have been collected on approx. 2 million individuals; Thousands of biospecimens for major cancer sites (inc. breast, prostate, lung, colon & rectum, melanoma, and bladder); Cohort Consortium members participate in approximately 50 projects which have made scientific discoveries about cancer risk factors and technical advances in cohort methodologies; For membership, Cohorts must have a min. of 10k study participants, cancer endpoints, and commitment to scientific collaborations through participating in pooling studies; To join or collaborate, contact Nonye Harvey, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., at NCICohortConsortium@mail.nih.gov.
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