Attach 4_Privacy act Memo

DATE: December 16, 2008

TO: Lee E. Moore, PhD, MPH

Project Officer

Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch

Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics

National Cancer Institute

FROM: NIH Privacy Act Officer

SUBJECT: Applicability of the Privacy Act: “Follow-up of Kidney Cancer Patients from the Central European Multicenter Case-Control Study (CEERCC) (NCI)”

I have reviewed the NCI/DCEG submission to OMB requesting approval for the use of the CEERCC Study. I have determined that the Privacy Act will apply to this data collection which involves the collection of personally identifiable information (name, DOB, sex, residency, medical history, tobacco/alcohol use and treatment, etc.).

Although data obtained from interviews will not be linked with PII, the questionnaires will be labeled with a study identification code linked to individual names which will be merged into a database and maintained.

The data collection is covered by NIH Privacy Act Systems of Record 09-25-0200, “Clinical, Basic and Population-based Research Studies of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), HHS/NIH/OD.”

If you have any questions, please contact my office at (301) 402-6201.

Karen M. Plá

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Cc: V. Horovitch-Kelley, NCI OMB Project Clearance Liaison Office