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The Continuous Update Project: Overview
WCRF/AICR has been the global leader in elucidating the relationship between food, nutrition, physical activity and cancer. The first and second expert reports represent the most extensive analysis of the existing science on the subject to date. To keep the evidence current and updated into the future, WCRF/AICR is undertaking the Continuous Update Project, in collaboration with Imperial College London (ICL).
The Continuous Update Project will provide the scientific community with a comprehensive and up to date depiction of scientific developments on the relationship between diet, physical activity, obesity and cancer. It will also provide an impartial analysis and interpretation of the data as a basis for reviewing and where necessary revising WCRF/AICR's cancer prevention recommendations based on the 2007 Expert Report.
In the same way that the Second Expert Report was informed by a process of systematic literature reviews (SLRs), the Continuous Update Project will systematically review all of the science as it is published. WCRF/AICR has convened a panel of experts (the Continuous Update Project Panel) consisting of leading scientists in the field of diet, physical activity, obesity and cancer who will consider the evidence produced by the systematic literature review and meta-analysis, and will consider the results and draw conclusions before making recommendations.
The ongoing systematic literature review will be conducted by a team of scientists at ICL in liaison with the SLR centres where possible.
Instead of periodically repeating the extensive task of conducting multiple systematic literature reviews that cover a long period of time, the continuous review process will be based on a live system of scientific data that is updated on an ongoing basis from which, at any point in time, the most current review and meta-analysis of scientific data can be performed.
WCRF/AICR will produce reports which will outline the scientific developments in the field of diet, physical activity, obesity and cancer. The reports will also include updates to the WCRF/AICR recommendations.
The updated recommendations will be used by the WCRF/AICR education and media relation departments to inform the general public both of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and of the developments in science that underpin these recommendations.
The first Continuous Update Project Report on breast cancer is now available. This Report is accompanied by a summary. Reports are in progress for other cancer sites.
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