American Cancer Society - looking for half a million volunteers
- From: J <nexsw@nvalid,anon>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:30:26 -0400
American Cancer Society - looking for half a million volunteers
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=3081493
Apr 25, 2007 ? WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The American Cancer Society said it
was looking for half a million volunteers willing to let researchers watch
them for the next 20 years to see if they get cancer.
The aim is to match similar big studies in Europe and Asia that are
looking on a large scale for the environmental and lifestyle factors that
cause cancer, the second-leading cause of death in the United States after
heart disease.
"This type of study involves hundreds of thousands of people, with diverse
backgrounds, followed for many years, with collection of biological
specimens and assessments of dietary, lifestyle and environmental
exposures," Eugenia Calle, managing director of analytic epidemiology at
the American Cancer Society, said in a statement.
"It also requires active follow-up to discover if and when study
participants develop cancer."
The group will recruit men and women between the ages of 30 and 65 who
have never been diagnosed with cancer. They will give blood to be tested
and answer questionnaires at various times over the next 20 years.
Similar big studies have confirmed the link between cigarette smoking and
lung cancer, shown that obesity increases the risk of several cancers, and
linked aspirin use to a lower death rate from colon cancer.
They have also found evidence that defied conventional wisdom, such as the
Women's Health Initiative study that found hormone replacement therapy
actually raises the risk of breast cancer, stroke and heart attack.
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I don't see it (yet, at a glance, on their webpage) unless they're
recruiting through primary doctors?
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp
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