IARC and the National Cancer Center Japan launch a joint long-term study on how lifestyle factors before cancer diagnosis affect prognosis, survival, and quality of life of patients with cancer

Researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the National Cancer Center Japan (NCC) have launched a joint initiative to follow up patients before and after a cancer diagnosis on a long-term basis, to study the impact of lifestyle risk factors before cancer diagnosis on the prognosis, survival, and quality of life of patients with cancer.

A new jointly coordinated research team – the Population-Based Long-Term Surveillance Team – has been established within IARC and NCC to conduct the study. This research will use the infrastructure and statistics of existing cohorts in Japan and Europe.

This joint project will enable researchers to build the necessary evidence base to inform guidelines that can be used to improve the quality of life of cancer survivors around the world. The research team is being led by Dr Marc Gunter, Head of the Nutrition and Metabolism Branch at IARC, and Dr Norie Sawada, Head of the Population-Based Long-Term Surveillance Section in the Division of International Health Policy Research at the NCC Institute for Cancer Control.

Read more about the Population-Based Long-Term Surveillance Team 

Read the NCC press release