UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening - Longitudinal Women’s Cohort
Initiatives
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Create an ‘open research’ platform for the study of common disease and delivery of precision medicine, specifically:
(i) Identification of new drug targets for common conditions to enable drug development, repositioning and indication expansion.
(ii) Discovery of novel risk prediction, screening, diagnostic and prognostic disease markers.
*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
- 2001
- End Year
- 2005
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Supplementary Information
- https://biobankinguk.org/human-samples/find/
Marker Paper
Menon U, Gentry-Maharaj A, Ryan A, Sharma A, Burnell M, Hallett R, Lewis S, Lopez A, Godfrey K, Oram D, Herod J, Williamson K, Seif M, Scott I, Mould T, Woolas R, Murdoch J, Dobbs S, Amso N, Leeson S, Cruickshank D, McGuire A, Campbell S, Fallowfield L, Skates S, Parmar M, Jacobs I. Recruitment to multicentre trials--lessons from UKCTOCS: descriptive study. BMJ. 2008 Nov 13;337:a2079. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a2079. Erratum in: BMJ. 2008;337:a2976.
PUBMED 25964255
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 202,280
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Postmenopausal women, aged 50-74 years were recruited through 13 trial centres in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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