Regional Cohorts - CanPath - Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health

Cohort Overview

BC Generations Project

The BC Generations Project is British Columbia’s largest-ever health study. The Project follows a cohort of nearly 30,000 BC participants who volunteer their health information and biological samples to help researchers learn more about how environment, lifestyle and genes contribute to cancer and other chronic diseases.

Visit website bcgenerationsproject.ca

Alberta’s Tomorrow Project

As Alberta’s largest health research study, ATP aims to reveal what causes and what may prevent cancer and chronic diseases. Following the health of 55,000 men and women for the next 50 years, this long-term cohort study provides exceptional depth and breadth of detailed information to researchers around the world. Thanks to more than a billion pieces of data and thousands of biological samples, scientists will be able to explore how lifestyle, genetics and environment influence the health of generations to come.

Healthy Future Sask

Healthy Future Sask is currently in development and will create a platform and resource for fostering research in cancer and chronic disease prevention within the Saskatchewan province. Healthy Future Sask will add more than 7,000 participants to the CanPath cohort.

Manitoba Tomorrow Project

The Manitoba Tomorrow Project (MTP) is a new population health research study that aims to learn more about the causes of cancer and chronic diseases, by following the health of 10,000 Manitoba residents for up to 50 years.

Where do you live? How much sleep do you get? What did you have for lunch? What really “runs in the family?” What choices can we make when it comes to our health? And what has already been determined? The answers for a healthier future are inside us all.

The Manitoba Tomorrow Project invites interested Manitobans who are between 30 and 74 years old to become participants in the study!

Ontario Health Study

The Ontario Health Study (OHS) is an ongoing research study investigating risk factors that cause diseases like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, asthma and Alzheimer’s. Between 2009 and 2017, the OHS recruited over 225,000 Ontario residents over the age of 18 to complete health-related questionnaires online, with follow-up questionnaires administered over time to follow their health as they age. Researchers will use this health information to study how our lifestyle, environment and family history affect our health over time and to develop strategies for the prevention, early detection and treatment of diseases. The Ontario Health Study also collected over 41,000 blood samples. The measurements and samples collected will help researchers better understand the factors that influence our health and quality of life.

Visit website ontariohealthstudy.ca

CARTaGENE

CARTaGENE is a public research platform of the CHU Sainte-Justine created to accelerate health research. CARTaGENE consists of both biological samples and health data from 43,000 Québec residents aged between 40 to 69 years.

Atlantic PATH

The Atlantic Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health Study, or Atlantic PATH has recruited over 30,000 participants from all four Atlantic Provinces. The samples and information that participants have given will help researchers find out why some people develop certain chronic diseases and others don’t. This information will will help to find new ways of preventing chronic diseases and to diagnose these diseases earlier, when they can be easier to treat.

This work is particularly important for Atlantic Canada, which has the highest rates of cancer in the country. Every year, more than 13,400 Atlantic Canadians are diagnosed with cancer and 6,300 die as a result. The disease truly does touch everyone living in this region, either personally or through family and friends.

Visit website atlanticpath.ca

Contact Your Regional Cohort

BC Generations Project

(British Columbia)

bcgenerationsproject@bccrc.ca
Website
Alberta’s Tomorrow Project

(Alberta)

Participants:
tomorrow@albertahealthservices.ca

Researchers:
ATP.Research@albertahealthservices.ca

Website
Healthy Future Sask

(Saskatchewan)

info@healthyfuturesask.ca
Website
Manitoba Tomorrow Project

(Manitoba)

CCMBTomorrow@cancercare.mb.ca
Website
Ontario Health Study

(Ontario)

info@ontariohealthstudy.ca
Website
CARTaGENE

(Quebec)

Participants:
cartagene@advanis.ca

Researchers:
access@cartagene.qc.ca
Website
Atlantic PATH

(Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
P.E.I., and Newfoundland and Labrador)

info@atlanticpath.ca
Website