United Kingdom Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS) Longitudinal Women's Cohort (UKLWC)
UKLWC is a biobank of samples and data donated by the women who joined the United Kingdom Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS) for use in secondary research. Recruited between 2001 and 2005, participants included over 200,000 postmenopausal women from England, Wales and Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, aged 50 to 74 years at recruitment. The goal of this project was to create an ‘open research’ platform accessible to all bona fide scientists from academia and industry for the study of common disease and delivery of precision medicine. Participants provided a blood sample at recruitment, and a subset of women donated blood serum annually until 2011. Participants were followed up via linkage until 2020.
Study design
Biobank
Number of participants at first data collection
202,280 (participants)
Age at first data collection
50 - 74 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
Female
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Countries
Year of first data collection
2001
2000 (linkage)
Primary Institutions
Medical Research Council (MRC)
University College London (UCL)
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
Abcodia
Cancer Research UK (CRUK)
Medical Research Council (MRC)
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
The Eve Appeal
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- 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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