The American Cancer Society invites Massachusetts residents to play a direct role in improving the lives of future generations by participating in a historic study. The Society will be enrolling volunteers for its Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3) at eight Relay For Life events throughout the state beginning on May 30 and throughout the month of June. These sites will be among 119 enrollment sites currently scheduled for 2008, nearly double the number of sites that took part in 2007. The study, which will enroll a diverse population of half a million people across the United States, will help researchers better understand the lifestyle, environmental, and genetic factors that cause or prevent cancer, and will further efforts to eliminate cancer as a major health concern for future generations. Researchers will use the data from CPS-3 to build on evidence from a series of American Cancer Society studies that began in the 1950s and involved hundreds of thousands of volunteer participants. The Hammond-Horn Study and previous Cancer Prevention Studies (CPS-I, and CPS-II) have played a major role in understanding cancer prevention and risk, and have contributed significantly to the scientific literature and to the development of public health guidelines and recommendations. Those studies confirmed the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, showed that obesity increases the risk of several cancers, and linked aspirin use to a lower death rate from colon cancer. The ...
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