Pooling Project of Prospective Studies of Diet and Cancer
The Pooling Project of Prospective Studies of Diet and Cancer (DCPP) is an international consortium of cohort studies working together to evaluate comprehensively how dietary factors, body size measurements, and other modifiable factors are associated with the risk of cancer and more recently other chronic diseases and mortality.
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Welcome to DCPP
The Pooling Project of Prospective Studies of Diet and Cancer (DCPP), stablished in 1991, is an international consortium of cohort studies, as indicated on the map below. (Each acronym represents a separate cohort study.)
Researchers leading all these studies work together to evaluate comprehensively how dietary factors, body size measurements, and other modifiable factors are associated with the risk of cancer and more recently other chronic diseases and mortality.
For more information on each cohort study listed below, see our Partners and Cohorts page.
In the DCPP, the primary participant-level data in the participating cohorts are harmonized and then analyzed using standardized criteria across cohorts to yield summary estimates as opposed to analyzing results extracted from the published literature. Projects have been led by students and researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and other institutions in the US, Europe, Australia and Asia.
Our research themes
Dietary factors and cancer incidence
Modifiable factors and cancer incidence
Dietary and other modifiable factors and chronic disease
Dietary factors and mortality
Pooled analyses of epidemiological studies