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Approved PLCO Projects

Here you can browse the complete list of projects for PLCO whose requests for data/biospecimens were approved.

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Approved Projects
Name Principal Investigator Institution Study Date Approved Project ID
Boundary tracing Mohsen Rezapour The University of Texas, Health Science center at Houston PLCO Mar 9, 2021 PLCO-699
Non-Genetic Risk Factors for Endometrial Cancer Surabhi Sajith BASIS Ahwatukee PLCO Mar 9, 2021 PLCO-743
Association of Adulthood Weight Change with Lung Cancer Risk and Mortality Hyung-Suk Yoon Vanderbilt University Medical Center PLCO Feb 22, 2021 PLCO-738
Detecting Medical Errors in the Cancer Screening Process: An In-Depth Review of Lung Cancer Screening & at Risk Qualifications Brianna Johnson University of Massachusetts Dartmouth PLCO Feb 22, 2021 PLCO-737
Adding metabolite names from PLCO, ATBC studies to COMETS metabolite dictionary Steven Moore National Cancer Institute PLCO Feb 3, 2021 PLCO-733
Novel Dietary Index for Gut Microbiota and Associations with Colorectal Cancer and Breast Cancer Risk Susan Steck University of South Carolina PLCO Jan 28, 2021 PLCO-730
Time to Event Prediction Based on Risk Calculation from Biomarkers Anna Lokshin University of Pittsburgh PLCO Jan 28, 2021 PLCO-717
Develop a Markovian-based natural history model for ovarian cancer progression Andrew Schaefer Rice University PLCO Jan 28, 2021 PLCO-729
Impact of Anti-Inflammatory Medication Use on Breast Cancer Incidence and Survival in Elderly ER+ Breast Cancer Adrian Lee University of Pittsburgh Medical Center PLCO Jan 28, 2021 PLCO-725
Explainable Machine Learning for Personalized Decision-Making in Prostate Cancer Krithika Suresh University of Colorado PLCO Jan 28, 2021 PLCO-726
Predicting Late Stage Cancer Paul Pinsky NCI PLCO Jan 25, 2021 PLCO-727
Development of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) biomarkers for early detection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) Marc Bissonnette University of Chicago PLCO Jan 15, 2021 2020-1003
Association between socioeconomic status and colorectal cancer survival in patients participating in the PLCO cancer screening trial Laura Davis Independent PLCO Jan 14, 2021 PLCO-714
The impact of body mass index (BMI) on cancer screening Sonja Berndt National Cancer Institute PLCO Jan 14, 2021 PLCO-716
Prospective metabolomics study of gastric cancer Xiang Shu Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center PLCO Jan 13, 2021 2020-1017
Generalizing the effect of chest x-ray screening Jon Steingrimsson Brown University PLCO Dec 31, 2020 PLCO-707
Implication of new models for predicting lung cancer screening selection based on CT scan and pathology image data Yuan Luo Northwestern University PLCO Dec 31, 2020 PLCO-710
Automated Medical Diagnostic Systems Fabien Scalzo University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) PLCO Dec 29, 2020 PLCO-711
Development of improved pre-diagnostic biomarker-based screening algorithms for ovarian cancer Anna Lokshin UPMC Hillman Cancer Center PLCO Dec 22, 2020 2020-1020
Delineating the underlying reasons for the racial disparity in gastric cancer incidence in the United States. Haejin In Rutgers Cancer Institute PLCO Dec 22, 2020 2020-1002