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EPIC - The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition

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EPIC was set up to investigate relationships between diet, nutrition, lifestyle and environmental factors and the onset of cancer and other chronic diseases.

EPIC is the largest study ever made of diet and health, involving over half a million people in ten European countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom and Sweden.

Researchers at EPIC are based at twenty-three centers in ten countries:

  • France (Paris)
  • Greece (Athens)
  • Norway (Tromsø)
  • Denmark (Aarhus and Copenhagen)
  • Germany (Heidelberg and Potsdam)
  • Sweden (Malmö and Umeå)
  • The Netherlands (Bilthoven and Utrecht)
  • United Kingdom (Cambridge and Oxford)
  • Italy (Florence, Milan, Naples, Ragusa and Turin)
  • Spain (Granada, Murcia, Asturias, Pamplona, San Sebastian, with Barcelona as coordination center)

From the beginning, seven countries were involved in EPIC, but between 1995 and 2000, Sweden, Denmark and Norway were added, which were already involved in similar studies. In this way, the European cohort was broadened to also include the Scandinavian population.

 

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