Population-Based Long-Term Surveillance (LTS) Section

Personnel exchange with IARC

The National Cancer Center has signed an MOU with International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (link to external site) to promote joint research. We have launched a new trial to promote the project by establishing a section/team on both sides where staffs from both organizations belong to. NCC set up this section and IARC has developed  LTS Team(link to external site) in the Nutrition and Metabolism Branch (NME). This is unique organizational structure for stimulating personnel exchanges with international organizations.

Projects of the LTS section

The objective of the LTS is to establish a long-term follow-up platform for cancer patients by combining the research bases of descriptive and analytical epidemiology. In particular, we will focus on collecting evidence on improving the prognosis of cancer survivors, with the aim of identifying associations between lifestyle risk factors before and after cancer diagnosis and survival, treatment, and quality of life after diagnosis.

The study will make maximum use of two main existing cohorts (the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study (JPHC) and the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)), in addition to comprehensive population-based statistics, such as cancer registries, and will also develop new research platform. Together with the Division of Cohort Research, our goal is to make evidence-based recommendations for international cancer control.