Korean National Cancer Center Community Cohort (KNCC Community Cohort)
The KNCC Community Cohort began as a part of the Korean Multi-center Cancer Cohort Study (KMCC) in 1993 and aims to study risk factors, biomarkers of exposures and effects, genetic susceptibility, and gene-environmental interactions in prevalent cancers in Korea. The participants are men and women over 30 years old from four geographically defined urban and rural areas in Korea. Over 16,000 participants completed a baseline questionnaire from 1993 to 2010 and have been followed annually via a register-based passive follow-up.
Study design
Cohort, Registry
Number of participants at first data collection
16,304 (participants)
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1993
Primary Institutions
National Cancer Center (국립암센터, NCC) - South Korea
Links
No website available
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Korean Electric Power Corporation (켑코, KEPCO)
Ministry of Health and Welfare (보건복지부, MOHW)
National Cancer Center (국립암센터, NCC)
Seoul National University Hospital Research Fund
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Interview – face-to-face
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Healthcare data
- Mortality data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
