Charles F. Lynch

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Charles F. Lynch has been the Principal Investigator of the Iowa Cancer Registry, a statewide cancer surveillance program that is part of the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program. He received his M.D. degree in 1979 and his Ph.D. degree in epidemiology in 1984, both from The University of Iowa. Dr. Lynch's primary research interests include the pathology of cancer, cancer epidemiology,radon, and environmental epidemiology. Currently, he is Principal Investigator for Iowa on the NCI/EPA/NIEHS-funded Agricultural Health Study, a prospective cohort study of 90,000 commercial pesticide applicators, private pesticide applicators, or spouses of private applicators from the states of Iowa or North Carolina. Additional information on Dr. Lynch can be found elsewhere. [1]

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