Korean Multi-center Cancer Cohort (KMCC)
Initiatives
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Relationship between exposures to environmental factors, lifestyle factors, host factors and the risk of cancer in Korea. Data on general lifestyle, physical activity, diet, reproductive factors, and agricultural exposures.
*Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.*
- Start Year
- 1993
- End Year
- 2011
- Funding
- Frontier Functional Human Genome Project from Ministry of Science and Technology of Korea (800-20010343), and partly by grant No. 09-2000-010-0 from the Seoul National University Hospital Research Fund(2000)
- Supplementary Information
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3108113/
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Cohort subjects were followed for cancer occurrence by using the Korea Central Cancer Registry database and for death by linking death certificated database of the Statistics Korea until December 31, 2011.
- Supplementary Information
Marker Paper
Yoo KY, Shin HR, Chang SH, Lee KS, Park SK, Kang D, Lee DH. Korean Multi-center Cancer Cohort Study including a Biological Materials Bank (KMCC-I). Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2002;3(1):85-92.
PUBMED 12718614
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 19,688
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- 7.916 men; 11.772 women
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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