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Participate in the cancer prevention study

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Those people who have not diagnosed with cancer can also take part in a study that may help determine what causes cancer and how we to prevent it.

More than half a million participants around the country are needed for "The American Cancer Society's Cancer Prevention Study"

If you are between the ages of 30 and 65 and have never been diagnosed with cancer, you can help researchers better understand the lifestyle, environmental, and genetic factors that cause or prevent cancer.

Study participants will be asked provide some physical measurements and give a small blood sample.

Then every two years, participants will get a questionnaire in the mail they need to complete. 

"If the public is more aware of the benefit that these studies can provide it provides that much greater on how important they are and the need for these studies," said  Steven Ziemba, Director of Clinical Research.

This is the American Cancer Society's third long range cancer study. The first one in 1950 helped to establish a link between smoking and cancer.

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