Britain launches lifelong breast cancer study
AFP, September, 2004
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LONDON (AFP) — In an effort to find new ways to prevent breast cancer, two British cancer organizations called for the help of 100,000 volunteers to participate in a lifelong breast cancer study.
"Breast cancer has causes that go back decades," said Cancer Research Institute Professor Anthony Swerdlow. "If you want to get to the bottom of it you need to follow people from as young an age as possible to as old as possible."
The study, conducted by the Cancer Research Institute and the organization Breakthrough Cancer, is looking for volunteers between the ages of 18 and 79, some of whom could be followed for as long as 50 years.
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"A study that lasts 30, 40 or 50 years is probably the key to success," said Swerdlow.
Every five years the volunteer will give a blood sample and respond to a detailed questionnaire about his life habits, in an ...
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