Collaboration is basic to the Cancer Epidemiology Centre's philosophy. Collaboration crosses all of the other themes and is essential to achieving the centre's strategic aims. Collaboration will be the vehicle for new initiatives both in scientific and infrastructure support by which we will be able to acquire new knowledge for cancer control. Collaboration is also the best way to use our resources to assist reseachers in other chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.
For further information on any of the current research projects please email cec@cancervic.org.au.
The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study (Health 2000)
HealthIron: Epidemiology of hereditary haemochromatosis
The contribution of smoking to socio-economic differentials in mortality among Australian men
Affect and anger control and risk of cancer
Genetic polymorphisms and the risk of lung cancer
The effect of physical activity in preventing osteoarthritis
Helicobacter pylori infection and risk of gastric cancer
The weight of modernity: mitigating obesity
Predictors of cardiovascular disease mortality in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study
(APCSC) Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration
Risk factors for age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
Retinal arteriolar signs and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in an Australian cohort
Glutathione peroxidase 1 and cardiovascular events in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study
Melanoma diagnosis and the effect of screening on depth of invasion of melanoma
Investigator(s): Gertig D, Allen K, Anderson G, Bahlo M, Bassett M, Delatycki M, Du Sart D, English D, Forrest S, Giles G, Hodge A, Hopper J, Mclaren C, Olynyk J, Powell L, Southey M, Vulpe C
Objective(s):
Investigator(s): Mohammad Siahpush*, Dallas English (*Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer)
Objective(s): To assess the contribution of smoking to educational differences in mortality among men in Australia.
Investigator(s): Vicki White*, Ron Borland**, Graham Giles, Dallas English (* Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer **VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control)
Objective(s): To determine whether emotional factors play a role in the development of specific cancers, especially breast cancer and prostate cancer.
Investigator(s): John McCallum**, Allison Hodge, Graham Giles, Dallas English, Leon Flicker*, John Hopper* (*External collaborators **Project leader)
Objective(s): To measure the effects of modifiable lifestyle factors on burden of disease and levels of health-related quality of life in a large and ethnically diverse cohort of older Australians.
Investigator(s): Abramson M and Zhang B (Monash Univ.), English DR, Severi G
Objective(s): To investigate the association between lung cancer and genetic polymorphisms in tumour suppressor genes, DNA repair genes, and metabolic genes.
Investigator(s): Cicuttini F (Monash Univ), English DR, Giles GG
Objective(s): The main aim is to determine whether an increasing amount of physical activity is associated with an increase in the amount of knee cartilage volume after adjusting for differences in gender, age, body and bone size.
Investigator(s): Forman D*, Turner F*, Barrett J*, Giles G, English D, Gengos M*, Mitchell H* (* External collaborators)
Objective(s): To investigate the joint effects of helicobacter pylori infection, dietary history and genetic polymorphisms in the aetiology of gastric cancer.
Investigator(s): D Broom**, J Dixon*, C Banwell*, C Forth*, Graham Giles (* External collaborators ** Project leader)
Objective(s):
Investigate the reasons underlying changing food consumption and physical activity practices, by asking:
Investigator(s): Kerin O'Dea*, Graham Giles, Allison Hodge, Andrew Sinclair*, Kevin Rowley*, David O'Neal*, Andrew Tonkin*, Dianna Magliano* (*External collaborators)
Objective(s): To examine the associations between cardiovascular disease and coronary heart disease mortality, and dietary, anthropometric and other risk factors in The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study.
Investigator(s): Dianna Magliano, Sophie Rogers, Danny Liew, Kerin O' Dea and Andrew Tonkin (all external)
Objective(s): The objective of this project is to validate a series of risk prediction tools (Framingham, ERICA, MRFIT, and SCORE)-among contemporary Australians by assessing their predictive capacity for coronary and stroke mortality, using observed longitudinal data from the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study.
Investigator(s): Australia - Graham Giles, Mark Woodward (External collaborator and Project Leader)
Objective(s):
Investigator(s): Luba Robman*, Robyn Guymer*, Graham Giles, Dallas English (* External collaborators)
Objective(s):
Investigator(s): Tien Wong**, Andrew Tonkin*, Graham Giles, Dallas English (* External collaborators ** Project leader)
Objective(s): The aim is to characterise retinal arteriolar signs and examine their relationship to cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular disease mortality, in persons with and without diabetes and hypertension in 40,000 participants 50+ years of age returning for the 10-year examination of the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study.
Investigator(s): Andrew Tonkin**, John McNeil*, Graham Giles (* External collaborators ** Project leader)
Objective(s): To investigate the role of the anti-oxidant enzyme, glutathione peroxidase 1 in the prevention of fatal atherosclerotic disease endpoints within the context of the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study.
Investigator(s): Dobbinson S*, Wakefield M*, English D, White V*, Livingston T*, Simpson J (* Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer)
Objective(s): To determine whether there is an increase in the number of students in intervention schools using areas under shade after construction of shade sails, compared with no change in control schools.
Investigator(s): Joanne Aitken*, Mark Elwood*, Dallas English (*External collaborators)
Objective(s): To assess the association between self-screening and screening by a doctor with thickness of melanoma at diagnosis and to describe modes of presentation, time course and process of diagnosis of melanoma in Queensland.
Investigator(s): Dallas English, Elizabeth Milne*, Donna Cross*, Billie Giles-Corti*, Robyn Johnston* (* External collaborators)
Objective(s): To design, implement and evaluate an intervention to reduce sun exposure in children in Western Australia.
