People asked to take part in cancer prevention study
Posted February 26, 2012 8:26 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The BC Cancer Agency is launching a massive research project looking at cancer prevention.
It’s called the BC Generations Project and is part of a national study that will involve 300,000 Canadians.
Project director Dr. Marilyn Borugian explains subjects will have a set of baseline tests performed and then their health will be monitored over 25 years. “During that time we will come up with new questions that we’d like to ask. A number of things we’d like to ask about in the future include more detail on diet, occupational and residential history. What that gets at is environmental exposures.”
“Researchers will be able to compare the ones that stayed healthy with the ones that developed the cancer by looking back at the information that was gathered in the baseline tests while those folks were still healthy,” says Dr. Borugian.
She says so far 20,000 British Columbians have signed up but would like to double that number to 40,000.
