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General description

The Connect for Cancer Prevention Study - Connect, is a prospective cohort of 200,000 adult patients aged 40-65 in the United States. Connect is designed to further investigate the etiology of cancer and its outcomes in patients with no personal history of invasive cancer (except non-melanoma skin cancer), based on an NIH IRB-approved protocol, to inform new approaches in early detection and precision prevention.

The new Connect cohort focuses on research innovations to promote the field of cancer epidemiology and prevention, including large-scale analyses of the epigenome, genome, metabolome, microbiome, proteome, and transcriptome; molecular profiling of tumors and precursor lesions; and new technologies for exposure assessment.

Data access

More information about Connect can be found at https://dceg.cancer.gov/research/who-we-study/cohorts/connect