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(EMAILWIRE.COM, February 23, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- The American Cancer Society has had trouble recruiting volunteers for the nationwide cancer prevention study, and has turned toward local businesses to cultivate interests among employees.
The third major cancer prevention study was announced in 2008, and had over a half-million participants expected to be signed by 2015.
The study's organizers have now lowered to total of participants to 300,000 individuals and are less than halfway to even that goal. Recruitment drives were held at fundraisers and events, which proved to not be the strongest area for garnering interest.
In an expansion effort to reach more people, Monsanto, Center Corporation, Edward Jones, UMB Bank, Maritz, KPMG, and Siteman Cancer Center will all be hosting recruitment drives for the employees and the public from late April to the start of May.
The study is open for all individuals between 30 and 65 years of age who have not been diagnosed with cancer.
Participants will have a waist measurement, as well as a blood sample taken. Over the next 20 years, they will be asked to complete bi-annual surveys that will take 45 minutes to complete.
Previous surveys for the national cancer studies have found that smoking is the root cause of many lung cancers, and that hormones are linked to breast cancer. This study aims to find environmental factors. It will also note genetic and lifestyle factors that may cause cancer as well.
The study needs as large a scope as possible in order to remove the many variables than can affect the overall study, including socioeconomic, racial, common-hereditary, and like-environment factors.
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Source: EmailWire.com
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