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The SCCS Cohort


Enrollment in the SCCS cohort began in March of 2002 and ended in September 2009.
A tabular description of the current cohort is shown below.

African American

White

Other racial/ethnic group

 

Women

Men

Women

Men

Women

Men

Number of...

32,457

22,905

15,463

9,842

2,564

1,566

Mean age at enrollment (years)

51.8

50.9

53.9

54.2

53.0

53.1

Percent enrolled at a community health center

91.2

91.0

80.9

67.2

75.0

64.4

Percent with stored baseline blood sample

46.2

49.3

47.1

39.3

40.8

35.0

Percent with stored baseline buccal cell sample

47.7

40.0

43.5

46.9

46.3

48.5

Percent with stored baseline urine sample

26.5

25.3

33.3

26.9

32.4

25.3

 

* Further descriptive and aggregated tabulations of SCCS participant data are available to researchers upon request. See Research Opportunities for more information about the process to request SCCS data).

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