This unique infrastructure, open to the scientific community, is dedicated to research on prognosis factors, treatment effectiveness and side effects in the real world, health of survivors and long-term effects of
treatments, impact of interventions.
It includes the COHOPER cohort, which will follow up all childhood cancer cases diagnosed since 2000 on a systematic basis (27,000 cases currently), and the National Virtual Biobank BIOCAP, which inventories and documents tumor and non-tumor specimens stored in the hospital biobanks for all cancer cases diagnosed since 2011.