The Asia Cohort Consortium
ACC Meetings
August 2017 Meeting in Tokyo, Japan
Please join us in Tokyo for the Asia Cohort Consortium General Membership Meeting on August 18, 2017.
Meeting Overview:
The purpose of this meeting is to update members on ACC developments, including cohort progress and cross-cohort activities, and discuss advances in the field which further the ACC mission.
Registration:
Please fill out the online registration form by July 31, 2017.
Anyone who is interested in the ACC meeting and its projects is welcome to attend.
Meeting Details:
The meeting will be held at the following location on August 18, 2017 (all day).
Main Hall (Research Institute)National Cancer Center Japan 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Tokyo 104-0045, JAPANMapMeeting Program:
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Time |
Topic |
Presenter |
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8:00-9:30 |
Executive Committee meeting |
Executive Committee |
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9:30-9:45 |
Introduction & opening remarks |
Manami Inoue |
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9:45-10:15 |
Cohort updates |
Cohort PIs |
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10:15-10:30 |
Update of the ACC Coordinating Center |
Manami Inoue Eiko Saito Shafiur Rahman |
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10:30-10:50 |
Coffee break |
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10:50-12:50 |
Current ACC projects |
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Alcohol and gastric cancer |
Paolo Boffetta via Skype |
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Smoking, physical activity and mortality |
Wei Zheng |
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Medical conditions and pancreatic cancer risk |
Yingsong Lin |
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Family history and colorectal cancer |
Aung Ko Win |
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Sleep duration and mortality |
Thomas Svensson |
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BMI and thyroid cancer |
Aesun Shin |
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BMI and gallbladder cancer |
Isao Oze |
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BMI, smoking, alcohol and multiple myeloma |
Tomotaka Ugai |
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BMI and gastroesophageal cancer |
Sue K.Park, Jieun Jiang |
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12:50-13:30 |
Lunch Break |
Seminar Room, 1st Floor |
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13:30-15:00 |
Setting up a prospective cohort using colorectal cancer screening test samples |
Rashmi Sinha |
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Lung cancer pooling project |
Xiao-Ou Shu |
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The United Arab Emirates Cohort |
Raghib Ali |
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Assessing the impact of overweight duration and intensity on cancer risk and survival |
Isabelle Soerjomataram |
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Constructing Dietary Inflammatory Index in Asia |
Jeongseon Kim (to be confirmed) |
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15:00-15:20 |
Coffee break |
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15:20-16:00 |
New proposals |
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Association between cardiometabolic multi-morbidity and specific mortality |
Sue K Park, Jieun Jiang |
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Coffee and tea drinking and liver cancer incidence and mortality |
Jung Eun Lee |
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Coffee and tea drinking and colorectal cancer incidence and mortality |
Xiao-Ou Shu |
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Association of reproductive and female hormonal factors with gallbladder cancer risk |
Aesun Shin |
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16:00-16:40 |
ACC Terms and conditions & authorship |
EC members |
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16:40-17:00 |
General discussion and closing remarks |
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Group Dinner:
Please join the dinner with fresh seafood and organic vegetables from Tsukiji Market.
Call for Project Proposals:
We invite new project proposals to be considered at our August 2017 meeting. Submitted proposals will be sent to the Executive Committee (EC) for initial review, and the ones that are deemed scientifically sound will be slated for review at the General Membership Meeting. For more details on proposal submission, please click here.
Proposals that do not follow this format will be returned to the author for resubmission.
Project proposals should be emailed to the Coordinating Center by July 18, 2017.
Hotel information:
Due to the high season, participants are requested to arrange their own accommodation well in advance. Early reservation recommended for lower rate. Please click here to find some of the recommended hotels;
Hosted by:
Dr. Manami Inoue
Division of Cohort Consortium Research
Center for Public Health Sciences
National Cancer Center Japan
Contact:
The ACC Coordinating Center
Center for Public Health Sciences
National Cancer Center Japan
5-1-1 Tsukiji, Tokyo 104-0045, JAPAN
Email: cc@asiacohort.org
Tel: +81-(0)3-3547-5201
Visa Information:
Please contact the ACC coordinating Center if you need assistance for obtaining an entry visa for Japan.