The objective of this contract will be to operate the Field Station already established in North Carolina in support of the next five years of the Agricultural Health Study. The Field Station will be primarily responsible for updating exposure data on the cohort previously established through administration of a questionnaire, linking the cohort members to vital status and disease registries in the state, coordinating all activities with the Coordinating Center, obtaining buccal swabs on a large fraction of the cohort for processing at the Coordinating Center, coordinating the activities of the U.S. EPA environmental assessment teams with a selected sample of farmers in the study, and related activities as described in the Statement of Work. This study is being issued by the Occupational Epidemiology Branch (OEB), Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program (EPB), Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), National Cancer Institute (NCI) to continue to obtain data to explain why farmers experience an excess of several cancers.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Division of Cancer Epidemiology And Genetics (NCI)
Type
Research and Development Contracts (N01)
Project #
N01CP081002-002
Application #
2870858
Study Section
Project Start
1997-12-30
Project End
2002-12-29
Budget Start
1998-09-11
Budget End
1998-12-29
Support Year
Fiscal Year
1998
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Battelle-Ctrs/Public Health Research-Evaluatn
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Baltimore
State
MD
Country
United States
Zip Code
21209
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