Canadian researchers have announced the launch of an enormous prospective study that they believe will provide tremendous insight into the causes of cancer and other chronic diseases among the Canadian population. They believe that the data collected will provide the foundation for hundreds of associated studies in years to come, and they also feel that this effort is unique, in part because it will focus on environmental risk factors for cancers and other diseases.
According to Marilyn J. Borugian, PhD, of the Cancer Control Research Program of the British Columbia Cancer Agency, this study "will form the foundation for a major research platform for the study of disease causation, both nationally and internationally."
COHORT
Researchers aim to enroll patients between the ages of 35 and 69 from across Canada, and to follow them for a minimum of 25 years. Enrollment has already gotten underway and is expected to be complete by 2012.
PUBLICATIONS
The project was announced online in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Majority funding will come from the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer.
By Ross Bonander
Source: Press Release
There should be further study
There should be further study about cancer to have a more accurate explanation of this disease.Some people who couldn't afford the chemotherapy loses hope easily.Some of them were being used in the practice of euthanasia to end up their burden and agony.I don't think so that it's the easiest way to do that!Most of us know Dr. Jack Kevorkian as doctor death. He aided people who will terminally ill in ending their life rather than battling whatever was ahead, this came to be known as assisted suicide. He, to this day feels he did nothing wrong, even with spending 8 years in prison for doing this. His old VW Van he would once drive to his patients houses with was for sell on eBay. The auction business took the listing down saying it violates their "murderabilia" policy, where you can't make a sale associated with murders. Come on, I have seen eBay sell some of the worst things ever, including porn disguised as something else, but they won't let somebody buy a doctors van. I do understand why their policy is in place, and that it does hold importance, but I feel they should have never let it get posted within the first location, not taken it down after being informed by others about this and after people decided they planned to bid on it.