AGRICULTURAL HEALTH STUDY--FIELD STATIONS

本合同的目标是操作现场站 已经在爱荷华州成立，以支持未来五年的 农业健康研究。 基地将主要 负责更新先前队列的暴露数据 通过管理一份调查问卷， 队列成员的生命状态和疾病登记， 国家，与协调中心协调所有活动， 在大部分队列上获得口腔拭子用于处理 在协调中心，协调美国环保署的活动 环境评估小组与选定的农民样本， 研究以及工作说明书中所述的相关活动。 这项研究由职业流行病学分支发布 (OEB)，流行病学和生物统计学计划（EPB），癌症部门 流行病学和遗传学（DCEG），国家癌症研究所（NCI）， 继续获得数据，以解释为什么农民的经验过剩， 几种癌症。

The objective of this contract will be to operate the Field Station already established in Iowa in support of the next five years of the Agricultural Health Study. The Field Station will be primarily responsible for updating exposure data on the cohort previously established through administration of a questionnaire, linking the cohort cohort members to vital status and disease registries in the state, coordinating all activities with the Coordinating Center, obtaining buccal swabs on a large fraction of the cohort for processing at the Coordinating Center, coordinating the activities of the U.S. EPA environmental assessment teams with a selected sample of farmers in the study, and related activities as described in the Statement of Work. This study is being issued by the Occupational Epidemiology Branch (OEB), Epidemiology & Biostatistics Program (EPB), Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), National Cancer Institute (NCI) to continue to obtain data to explain why farmers experience an excess of several cancers.