Endometrial Cancer 2013 Report, Project "Keeping the Science Current"
American Institute for Cancer Research / World Cancer Research Fund
USA, 2013, 32 pagesWorld Cancer Research Fund / American Institute for Cancer Research. Continuous Update Project Report. Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Endometrial Cancer. 2013. Available at http://www.dietandcancerreport.org.This report provides an updated version of section 7.12 Endometrium from the Second Expert
Report: Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective. This
section has been updated based on Panel discussions in June 2013 on the Continuous Update
Project Endometrial Cancer Systematic Literature review (SLR), prepared by the research team at Imperial College London, UK in 2012 (see acknowledgements). The SLR included research papers published until 31st December 2012. For further details please see the full 2012 Continuous Update Project Endometrial Cancer SLR (www.dietandcancerreport.org).To keep the evidence current and updated into the future, WCRF/AICR is undertaking the
Continuous Update Project (CUP), in collaboration with Imperial College London. The project is an ongoing review of food, nutrition, physical activity, body fatness, and cancer research. The CUP builds upon the foundations of the WCRF/AICR Second Expert Report (SER) [1].
The Continuous Update Project provides a comprehensive and up to date depiction of scientific
developments on the relationship between food, nutrition, physical activity, body fatness and
cancer. It also provides an impartial analysis and interpretation of the data as a basis for reviewing
and where necessary revising WCRF/AICR's Recommendations for Cancer Prevention based on the Second Expert Report [1].In the same way that the Second Expert Report was informed by a process of SLRs, the Continuous Update Project systematically reviews the science. The updates to the SLRs are being conducted by a team of scientists at Imperial College London in liaison with the original SLR centres.WCRF/AICR has convened a panel of experts (the Continuous Update Project Panel (see
acknowledgements)) consisting of leading scientists in the field, who consider the updated
evidence from systematic literature reviews and draw conclusions.Once all the cancers have been updated in the CUP database in 2015, the Panel will formally
review the WCRF/AICR Recommendations for Cancer Prevention, and any changes will be
communicated through the WCRF global network science, health information and communications programmes in 2017. From 2015 the CUP database will be continuously updated with new evidence for each cancer. Prior to 2017 the Panel will revise one or more Recommendations only if they agree there is strong evidence for a change.Instead of periodically repeating the extensive task of conducting multiple systematic literature
reviews that cover a long period of time, the continuous review process is based on a live system of scientific data. The database is updated on an ongoing basis from which, at any point in time, the most current review of scientific data (including meta-analyses where appropriate) can be performed.Periodically WCRF/AICR will produce updated SLRs, peer reviewed by scientists, which will outline
the scientific developments in the field of food, nutrition, physical activity, body weight and cancer.
