Volunteers needed for national cancer prevention study - News 14

Updated?03/21/2013 09:41 PM

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RALEIGH?The American Cancer Society is continuing its search for volunteers for a national cancer prevention study.

The organization is looking for 7,500 people in North Carolina to agree to answer lifestyle questions for the survey over the next 20 to 30 years.

?These chairs are where patients everyday get treatment for cancer,? said Emmeline Madsen, Manager of Cancer Specialty Services at Rex Hospital's Cancer Center, as she sat in the Infusion Room.

Madsen and her co-workers would love nothing more than to keep the infusion chairs empty, if no one needed to be treated for cancer.

?My sister was diagnosed [with cancer] when she was 29-years-old and my aunt just recently died,? Madsen said.

Those are just two of the reasons she is volunteering for the American Cancer Society's national Cancer Prevention Study, known as CPS-3.

?What we might do is save one life or a lot of lives by giving our information,? said Madsen.

?The American Cancer Society is currently conducting its third cancer prevention study. Our first study was back in the 50's when they linked smoking to lung cancer. Our second was in the 80's when they linked obesity to cancer,? said Community Manager for the American Cancer Society Kristi Koller.

Now the American Cancer Society is trying to determine what role people's lifestyles, environments, and genetic factors play in determining whether or not they get cancer; in the hopes of trying to prevent the disease.

The American Cancer Society is planning to survey 300,000 people across the country, all of whom must be between the ages of 35 and 65, who have never been diagnosed with cancer.

In order to participate in the study, people will fill out a few forms, give a blood sample, have their waist measured, and then for the next 20-30 years, answer a few questions every three to five years.

?Maybe my contribution to this study is maybe we'll figure out what causes cancer and maybe my child won't have to be a patient in one of these chairs,? Madsen said.

The last study enrollment event in Wake County is Friday, March 22 from 10:00 a.m. Until 1:30 p.m. at the Rex Hospital Cancer Center in Raleigh.

There will also be enrollment events in Chatham County in May, Durham and Orange Counties in September, and Vance and Granville Counties in October.

For more information on the study or to learn how to get involved, click, here.

Source: http://triangle.news14.com/content/top_stories/692073/volunteers-needed-for-national-cancer-prevention-study

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