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DATA DICTIONARIES
Participant Table
Participant information such as date of birth, mortality, and survey fill dates.
Survey Data
Data from CTS surveys, including ~1200 of the most commonly used variables.
Cancer Researcher File
Cancer variables such as site, stage, and histology.
Hospital Visits
Hospital visit information including diagnoses and procedures.
Hospital Diagnoses & Procedures
Diagnoses and procedures in a long format, which can be easily scanned for ICD codes of interest.
Residential History
Residential history information including census geographies.
Questionnaire 6 Survey Data
Data from the 6th CTS questionnaire.
Questionnaire 7 Survey Data
Data from the 7th CTS questionnaire, administered in 2025.
Children's Health History
Survey questions about participants' children's health history.
Diet Data
Detailed survey questions about diet.
Comorbidities
Comorbidity definitions from the NCI comorbidity index applied to identify the earliest presence of any of the relevant diagnosis codes for each condition within the hospitalization data.
Biospecimen Inventory
Inventory details of the CTS' existing biospecimens.
UM1 Survey
Data from a survey administered at the time of blood sample collection.