A261A: The Australian Diabetes and Cancer Collaboration

The Australian Diabetes and Cancer Collaboration

Approved: 2011

Collaborators:

Prof Dianna Magliano
Prof Graham Giles
Prof Mary Luszcz
Prof Kaarin Anstey
A/Prof Kieran McCaul
Prof Jonathan Shaw
Prof Rachel Huxley
Dr Beverley Balkau
A/Prof Wendy Davis
Prof Paul Mitchell
A/Prof Leon Simons
Dr Patrick Phillips
Prof Chris Reid
Prof Andrew Tonkin
Prof Mark Woodward
Ms Julie Pasco
Ms Jessica Harding

Synopsis

This study aims to pool data from 18 Australian and New Zealand longitudinal cohorts which have diabetes status and anthropometry measured at baseline and to match these cohorts to the National Death and Cancer registries in Australia and New Zealand to collect fatal and non-fatal cancer outcomes, and explore the relationships of diabetes and obesity, hypertension and metabolic syndrome, with overall and site-specific cancer (in particular, but not limited to, prostate, colo-rectal and breast cancer). We have assembled the studies and now want to examine two additional different research question using this cohort. These questions are broadly related to diabetes and or obesity.