Tools & Resources

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Through DCP support, researchers have access to these scientific tools and resources for advancing cancer prevention, early detection, and screening.

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Biospecimens, Data, and Images

Cancer Data Access System (CDAS)

Cancer Data Access System (CDAS) is a submission and tracking system for researchers to request data, images, and/or biospecimens from various research studies. CDAS provides extensive documentation for each trial, including a summary of the trial, a description of the data collected, and a searchable list of approved research projects and publications with CDAS study data. The following studies are available on CDAS:

  • National Lung Screening Trial (NLST)
  • Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial (PLCO)
  • Interactive Diet and Activity Tracking in AARP (IDATA)
  • Early Phase Prevention Trials (EPPT: 2012 Consortia)

Early Detection Research Network

Data and resources from this biomarker research network.

Grantee Biospecimens


Clinical Trials Resources

Clinical Trials Search

A list of active clinical trials in prevention, detection, and symptom science supported by divisional programs and NIH grants.

Clinical Trials Management

Information for researchers about developing, reporting, and managing cancer clinical trials.


Preclinical Drug Discovery and Development

Cancer Immunoprevention Research Resources

Originally published in the journal Cancer Immunology Research in 2024, these National Institutes of Health Resources are open to researchers.

Cancer Prevention-Interception Targeted (CAP-IT) Agent Discovery Program Data Sharing Catalog

This inventory of datasets is associated with awards from the CAP-IT program.

PREVENT Cancer Preclinical Drug Development Program (PREVENT)

This program allocates NIH contract resources and expertise to generate data and materials to be used by applicants to advance research on cancer prevention agents or biomarkers.


Publications

Publications Search 

Search a database of publications relating to prevention, detection, and symptom science research by current and former staff.


Statistical Resources

Cancer Treatment Tolerability Resources and Tools

Resources and tools to guide researchers interested in summarizing and visualizing patient tolerability data. 

Clinical Trial Randomization Tool

A program to generate a randomized recruitment list for any clinical trial, based on the number of participants or maximum tolerated imbalance (MTI) between arms. 

Measurement Error: Impact on Nutrition Research and Adjustment for its Effects

This primer is intended for those who wish to know more about the statistical issues underlying measurement impact on research results and statistical methods of adjusting for its unwanted effects. 

Power Program

This program computes sample size or power for user specified null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis parameter values for a variety of experimental designs.