Good news: several sponsoring agencies, including the Canadian Cancer Society, the Heart and Lung Foundation, and the BC Cancer Agency, are launching a huge study of 40,000 people to try to determine the effects that envionmental factors, lifestyle factors, and genetic factors play in the development of chronic diseases, especially certain cancers.
That’s terrific news because we just don’t do these kind of large studies in Canada, so when it comes to figuring out which factors play a role in chronic disease, what we’re mostly left with are studies from other countries, particularly Scandinavian ones and the US, and we extrapolate those results to the Canadian populace, which is probably OK, but there’s always a lingering question as to whether that data always applies equally to Canadians.
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That’s the cloud this study is aiming to remove, so if you are between 40 and 69, why not sign up?
You don’t have to do much: you’ll get a full health review, you’ll have to have a blood test and a urine test, and then your information will be entered in the data base.
To learn more or to sign up for the BC Generations Project, please visit www.bcgenerationsproject.ca, or call 604-675-8221 or toll-free 1-877-675-8221
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