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CanPath Completes Provincial Map with Addition of a Saskatchewan Cohort
…more recently mining. The burden of cancer in Saskatchewan is significant with about 5,600 new cancers diagnosed in 2018 and just over 2,000 cancer deaths in the same year. In…
CanPath at the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics Conference 2023
…C5: Cancer Epidemiology II – Exploring Environmental Exposure to Arsenic and Cancer Risk in the Atlantic PATH Cohort using Toxicological and Machine Learning Methods Presenter: Dr. Ellen Sweeney, Research Director,…
Webinar on applying for Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project data and biosamples to support key questions in cancer research
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has launched a funding opportunity to use data and biosamples from existing cohorts and databases to address key questions in cancer research. To…
How Canadian data could help us understand cancer
What causes cancer and chronic diseases? The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP) is hoping to gather enough evidence to answer that question — at least, in about 30 years or so….
Trainee Research Webinar: Unlocking the genetic secrets of healthy aging, disease progression, and prevention
…outcomes, and Umaimah Zanif explores how two biomarkers related to colorectal cancer prognosis are associated with demographic, health history and lifestyle factors assessed before their diagnosis. Download Dr. Michelle Harwood’s…
20 years of Alberta’s Tomorrow Project
…Vice-President of the Alberta Cancer Board and current Expert Advisor, Cancer Control with the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, created this platform, with the goal of tracking thousands of adults over…
A new Canadian cohort for cancer discoveries
International Innovation magazine speaks to Partnership CEO Shelly Jamieson, CPTP Senior Scientific Leader Jacques Magnan, and CPTP’s scientific directors. Read the six-page spread on internationalinnovation.com….
PATH & CPTP Update: How the data and biosamples provided by CPTP participants are helping researchers understand the causes of cancer and chronic disease
As part of the Atlantic PATH Road Show, this public presentation gave an overview of CPTP, Atlantic PATH, and how the data will be used by researchers. Specific examples of…
Canada’s largest health research project celebrates its 150-thousandth blood sample collection
…for all Canadians, to facilitate research into the causes of cancer and chronic disease. CPTP is a consortium of five regional studies representing eight Canadian provinces: BC Generations Project, Alberta’s…
The Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP): An Emerging Platform for Precision Health
Untangling the interplay between modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors – genetics, epigenetics, diet, lifestyle, and environment – is central to our understanding of the onset and progression of many cancers…