WELCOME TO CNC
The Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology in Cancer Prevention and Survival (CNC) is a major new initiative in cancer prevention. In collaboration with seven other UK Universities and five MRC Units, the Centre will build on findings from the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC) and provide scientific evidence to help underpin intervention studies, public health advice and clinical guidance on treatment. Cancer is still one of the most common causes of death in western countries, including the UK. About 30% of risk is attributed to diet, rising to 70% for some sites such as bowel cancer. The Centre will also provide a focus for nutritional epidemiology for other common diet related diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
The Medical Research Council (MRC)
The Medical Research Council (MRC) is funded by the UK taxpayer. It aims to improve human health. The research it supports and the scientists it trains meet the needs of the health services, the pharmaceutical and other health-related industries and universities. The MRC has funded work which has led to some of the most significant discoveries and achievements in medicine in the UK.
The University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine
The University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine is a centre of academic excellence, providing an education of the highest quality so as to produce medical practitioners and teachers and researchers of the future.
Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Department of Public Health and Primary Care key strategies involve investigations of the separate and combined influences of genetic and environmental factors in chronic disease by studies of several epidemiological large-scale collections established through national and international collaborations. In several of these studies, aetiological investigations and patho-physiological natural history studies are integrated with molecular biology and clinical medicine.
