Prospective Study on Hormones, Diet and Breast Cancer (ORDET)
ORDET was designed to investigate how diet and hormones affect the onset, course and outcome of breast cancer using a population of women in Italy. Participants were healthy women aged 35 to 69 years who were residents of the Varese province of Northern Italy. At baseline, over 10,000 women participated in the study. Participants were followed up for 5 years, after which cancer cases were tracked using a linked cancer registry.
Study design
Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
10,786 (participants)
Age at first data collection
35 - 69 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
Female
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1987
Primary Institutions
National Cancer Institute of Milan (Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, INT)
State University of New York at Buffalo (UB)
Links
No website available
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Italian League for the Fight against Cancer (LILT)
Ministry of Health (Ministero della Salute)
National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR)
State University of New York at Buffalo (UB)
Ongoing?
No
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
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