BC Generations Project (British Columbia)
Initiatives
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To study how environment, lifestyle and genes contribute to cancer and other chronic diseases. Part of a national initiative – Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health.
To better understand the effects of environmental exposures, lifestyle and genetics on chronic diseases such as cancer. The resulting knowledge is intended to contribute to the development of new aetiological information leading to earlier disease detection and new prevention strategies.
**General contact: [email protected]**
- Start Year
- 2009
- Funding
- Canadian Partnership Against Cancer and Health Canada.
- Supplementary Information
- https://www.popdata.bc.ca/data/demographic/BCGens
Visit BCGP
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Followed periodically for up to 50 years. Passive follow-up includes ongoing linkage to provincial administrative health data, such as medical claims to BC’s health insurance plan and cancer diagnoses captured by the BC Cancer Registry. Additional requests for participants to provide more information, biospecimens and/or physical measurements, also continue.
- Supplementary Information
Marker Paper
Dhalla A, McDonald TE, Gallagher RP, Spinelli JJ, Brooks-Wilson AR, Lee TK, Lai C, Borugian MJ, Woods RR, Le ND, Dummer TJB, Cohort Profile: The British Columbia Generations Project (BCGP), Int J Epidemiol, 2018 Aug 28, dyy160
PUBMED 30169793
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 30,000
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- British Columbia residents (aged 35-69 at enrollment)
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://www.bcgenerationsproject.ca/