Woodbridge Adults Needed for Cancer Study

If you can't cure cancer, how about doing the next best thing? 

Helping prevent it in the first place.

That's the goal of a new American Cancer Society study. They're hoping to recruit adults who've never been diagnosed with the disease, and then follow them around to find out what they're doing - or not doing - that can have an impact on getting the disease in the first place.

Participants for the study, known as Cancer Prevention Study 3 - or CPS-3 for short - are being recruited by the Central New Jersey region of the American Cancer Society this spring.

One of the places where study subjects will be recruited is the YMCA at the Woodbridge Community Center. That happens on May 23 between 3 pm and 6:30 pm.

Eligible participants include men and women between the ages of 30 to 65 who have never been diagnosed with cancer. Anyone involved should be willing to make a long-term commitment to the study, which involves completing periodic follow-up surveys at home.

The study will help better understand the genetic, behavioral, and environmental and lifestyle factors that cause or prevent cancer and ultimately eliminate cancer as a major health concern for future generations.

A kickoff event for the study and recruitmen will be held at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital on Tuesday, April 9 at 11:00 am, in the large private dining room.

For more information, including forms on how to sign up, go to the CPS-3 website at this link.

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