Across Generations: BC Generations Project Newsletter, Winter 2023/24

Our latest newsletter highlights a national COVID-19 antibody study including BC participants, and shares how the BC Generation Project’s new virtual Tissue Tumour Bank is supporting innovative research.

Our latest newsletter highlights a national COVID-19 antibody study including BC participants, and shares how the BC Generation Project’s new virtual Tissue Tumour Bank is supporting innovative research.

Our latest newsletter highlights a national COVID-19 antibody study including BC participants, and shares how the BC Generation Project’s new virtual Tissue Tumour Bank is supporting innovative research.

Our latest newsletter includes how project participants contribute to COVID-19 research efforts, and a research trainee studies how built environment influences breast cancer risk.

Our latest newsletter celebrates our 10th anniversary! Plus, read about a recent study showing that metabolites in the blood may reflect healthy behaviours – and help predict cancer risk.

Our newsletter for Spring 2018 is now out! Learn about the BC Generations Project’s newest questionnaire to collect participants’ occupational history.

We're Checking Back In - As part of its plan to track the health outcomes of nearly 30,000 British Columbians over several decades, the BC Generations Project launched a new Follow-Up Health & Lifestyle Questionnaire last fall.

Last June, the BC Generations Project launched a new online questionnaire relating to residential history. To date more than 10,000 participants have taken the time to provide this valuable information.

In this issue: Updates on Canada-wide recruitment and the harmonized dataset; BC stats on cancer diagnoses among participants; and our own Dr. John Spinelli weighs in on whether cancer is preventable.

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