| 1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION |
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Cohort name
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Uranium miners Hungary 1982
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Country
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Please provide any other information on the cohort location/s if needed
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city: Pécs (Hungary)
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Name
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János Sándor
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Institution
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Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, University of Debrecen
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Email
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janos.sandor@med.unideb.hu
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Phone
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+36209323140
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Personal website
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none
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Website
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Name of committee
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none
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Or provide website
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Data access policy (briefly describe)
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none
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Is this cohort part of a consortium? (name consortium)
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not
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Participation in pooled analyses
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- The cohort is potentially interested in participating in pooled analyses of (European) occupational cohort studies (note pooled analyses also includes remote decentralized analyses that would not require any transfer of primary data as well as meta-analyses).
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Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort
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to monitor the occupational radon induced lung cancer occurrence
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Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
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Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
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- Industry / occupation-based
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Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)
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- External study population (includes SMR/SIR studies)
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Inclusion criteria
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employed in the uranium mine in 01/01/1982
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Exclusion criteria
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women
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Enrollment
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Completed
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Age range at entry (main cohort)
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Mean |
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65 |
36 |
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Men at enrollment
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cohort composed of men exclusively
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Women at enrollment
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not
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Children (<18 years) at enrollment
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not
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Men at last follow-up
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1996
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Women at last follow-up
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none
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Children (<18 years) at last follow-up
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none
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Participation rate at enrollment (if known)
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100
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Comments
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Data collection on the cohort is not active now due to resource restriction.
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| 2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP |
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Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
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- Death certificate
- Use of registers (specify)
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Specify: Use of registers
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- uranium miners with incident lung cancer are to be notified by law; this registry is maintained by governmental institution.
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First follow-up period (provide year)
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1982
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Last follow-up period (provide year)
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1996
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Number of follow-ups after baseline (provide number)
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by each year
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| 3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES |
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Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
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Occupational history/time frame
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Follow-up period
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Occupational coding performed
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Yes
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Occupation (specify coding system used)
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- uranium miner without further specification
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Industry (specify coding system used)
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Types of exposure measurements
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- Personal external sampling
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Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
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Specify: Job Exposure Matrix / Other
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regular measurement of radon related exposure x registered time sheet by workers
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Main categories
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Main categories | Other | Specify: Other
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dose of ionizing radiation through air
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| 4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED |
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Baseline - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
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Registry-based
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- Cancer incidence
- Employment status
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Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
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- Death certificates
- Registry-based
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Registry-based
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Specify: Other
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registry of the incidence
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Outcome type (please select as many as appropriate)
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Diagnostic groups based on ICD10
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C + D Neoplasms
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| 6. Other Information |
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Possibility for linkage to data registries/data enrichment via data linkage
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