Publicly Available Data

FAIR is written with each letter in a large circle. The circles point down to boxes reading Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable, respectively, with an icon in each box.

With Big Data Come Big Responsibilities

DCEG investigators are implementing FAIR principles across the Division by building collaborative data platforms and software tools for large-scale epidemiological research.

Agricultural Health Study (AHS)

The AHS cohort includes 89,655 private pesticide applicators (mostly farmers), spouses of private applicators, and commercial pesticide applicators recruited in Iowa and North Carolina. Learn more about proposals for collaborations on the AHS Website.

Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention (ATBC) Study

The ATBC Study, conducted in southwestern Finland, was designed to test hypotheses based on epidemiological and experimental evidence supporting nutritional prevention of cancer. Baseline questionnaire data and biospecimens (serum, whole blood, and toenail clippings) were collected, and fasting serum α-tocopherol, β-carotene, retinol, and HDL/total cholesterol were measured for the entire cohort. Linkage with the Finnish Cancer and Mortality Registries provided complete case ascertainment and causes of death. Learn more and request access to the data.

Chernobyl Tissue Bank

The Chernobyl Tissue Bank (CTB) is a resource to collect, document, store, and share to bona fide researchers, biological samples donated by patients with thyroid tumors who live in the vicinity of the site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Confluence Project

The Confluence project will develop a large research resource to uncover breast cancer genetics through genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The resource will include at least 300,000 breast cancer cases and 300,000 controls of different races/ethnicities. This will be accomplished by the confluence of existing GWAS and new genome-wide genotyping data to be generated through this project.

Costa Rica HPV Vaccine Trial (CVT)

The CVT was a blinded, randomized, phase III clinical trial of the bivalent HPV 16/18 virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine developed by investigators at NCI and other research institutions, and manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals. Its aims were to evaluate vaccine efficacy, immunological correlates of long-term vaccine success and failure, and other factors of immunological and etiological interest. Learn more about how to request data and/or specimens.

Glycemic Index Values Database

Database that provides glycemic index values for common foods. Glycemic load can be calculated for each portion size of food consumed using these numbers.

GEMShare

The GEMINI Shared Repository (GEMShare) is a resource for investigators wishing to access data from the Golestan Cohort Study, a population-based study of approximately 50,000 adults who have been actively followed up since 2004. GEMShare includes baseline assessments of sociodemographic, lifestyle, and dietary questionnaires, and biospecimens including blood, hair, nails, and urine samples. Learn more about how to submit proposals for collaborations on the GEMINI Shared Repository (GEMShare) web portal.

Get the Facts About Exposure to I-131 Radiation

Information and resources for Americans exposed to I-131 (a form of radioactive iodine) through fallout from above-ground nuclear testing in the 1950s and early 60s.

NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study

Data from the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study, the largest prospective in-depth study examining the relationship between diet, lifestyle, and cancer risk, are available for use by established researchers, and project proposals can be submitted to the NIH-AARP Diet & Health Study Tracking and Review System (STaRS) . Publication policy and acknowledgments requirements are available on the STaRS website.

NCI Cancer Atlas

NCI Cancer Atlas is a mapping tool designed to provide visualization of national cancer data. The tool enables users to create maps of cancer statistics, demographics, and risk factors for use in research. The Atlas was expanded with cancer mortality data previously available through the legacy Cancer Mortality Maps application.

PLCO Atlas: Visualize and interact with genome wide association study results

GWAS Explorer, the PLCO Atlas

An interactive tool for researchers to search, visualize, and download results from the PLCO GWAS.

PLCO Data on CDAS

The Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial was a randomized, controlled trial to determine whether certain screening exams reduce mortality from prostate, lung, colorectal and ovarian cancer. Approximately 155,000 participants were enrolled between November 1993 and July 2001. Cancer data collected up to December 31, 2009, and mortality data collected through 2015 for each subject in the PLCO trial are available on the Cancer Data Access System website. Cancers and deaths continue to accrue. At some point in the future, these data will become available.

The PLCO Atlas: GWAS Explorer

The PLCO Atlas is an interactive tool that enables researchers to search for, visualize, and download aggregated association results from the PLCO genome-wide association analyses (GWAS).

TP53 Database

TP53 Database is a source of information on TP53 variants for a broad range of scientists and clinicians who work in different research areas: cancer, functional/structural data, somatic variants, germline variants, cell lines, mouse models, and experimentally induced variants.

Virtual Pooled Registry Cancer Linkage System (VPR-CLS)

The VPR-CLS links data from study participants, through linkage with the National Death Index, or with queries to individual cancer registries to provide accurate and complete cancer incidence and cause-of-death ascertainment.