Enrollment in the SCCS cohort began in March of 2002 and ended in September 2009.
A tabular description of the current cohort is shown below.

 African AmericanWhiteOther racial group
 WomenMenWomenMenWomenMen
Number of...32,45722,90515,4639,8422,5641,566
Mean age at enrollment (years)51.850.953.954.25353.1
Percent enrolled at a community health center91.29180.967.27564.4
Percent with stored baseline blood sample46.249.347.139.340.835
Percent with stored baseline buccal cell sample47.74043.546.946.348.5
Percent with stored baseline urine sample26.525.333.326.932.425.3

* Further descriptive and aggregated tabulations of SCCS participant data are available to researchers upon request. See Research Opportunities for more information about the process to request SCCS data.