Atlantic Partnership for Tomorrow's Health
Initiatives
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To investigte how genetics, the environment, lifestyle, and behaviour contribute to the development of cancer.
Atlantic PATH has two primary objectives:
* to develop a databank containing health and health-related measures, as well as biological samples;
* to encourage and facilitate the use of the databank by researchers, with an emphasis on cancer aetiology and other chronic disease.
**Contact: info@canpath.ca**
- Start Year
- 2009
- Funding
- Canadian Partnership Against Cancer ,by Health Canada and the Canadian Cancer Society.
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Participants have consented to be followed over a 30-year period as part of the long-term study. Data will be collected actively and passively at regular intervals to obtain additional information on lifestyle behaviours, health outcomes, biological samples and physical measurements. The first online follow-up questionnaire was implemented in the fall of 2016.
- Supplementary Information
Marker Paper
Sweeney E, Cui Y, DeClercq V, et al. Cohort Profile: The Atlantic Partnership for Tomorrow's Health (Atlantic PATH) Study. Int J Epidemiol. 2017;46(6):1762-1763i. doi:10.1093/ije/dyx124
PUBMED 29025120
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 34,000
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Residents of Atlantic Canada, age 30–74 years.
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://www.atlanticpath.ca/
By contacting the study representative
Supplementary Information