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We’re pleased to share a new publication that considers substituting sedentary behaviour with physical activity among participants with a history of cancer. Congratulations to Dr. Cindy Forbes and team! Open Access: https://bit.ly/3MQvqEp
The Atlantic PATH team is always happy to support the Canadian Cancer Society’s Plaid for Dad event which raises awareness about prostate cancer and supports prostate cancer research in Canada. There were two years when we could be together for Plaid for Dad in the office and with our office dog Flash. We’re happy to Read more about Five Years of Team PATH and Plaid for Dad[…]
Funded by the Canadian Cancer Society Data Transformation Grant, this work will connect cancer registry and administrative health data with CanPath data creating a unified resource for cancer research in Canada. https://bit.ly/3OojlZ2 Urquhart R, Awadalla P, Bhatti P, Dummer T, Gravel S, Vena J, Alvi R, Broet P, Kendell C, Kirsh V, Lettre G, Skead Read more about Congratulations to Dr. Robin Urquhart and the CanPath team across the country![…]
The highly competitive funding is meant to support high-risk, high-reward and interdisciplinary research. The NFRF funding is “especially meaningful because it encourages our scholars to push the boundaries of knowledge. This is how great discoveries are made,” says Alice Aiken, Vice-President, Research and Innovation. “It’s exciting to see our researchers harnessing machine learning, natural language Read more about Congratulations to Drs. Syed Sibte Raza Abidi, Jong Sung Kim, Ellen Sweeney, Gabriela Ilie, and Trevor Dummer on a successful New Frontiers in Research Fund’s Exploration grant.[…]
Did you miss CanPath’s Participant Town Hall? It can be viewed on CanPath’s YouTube channel. Learn about how participant data and biosamples are being used in cancer, COVID-19 and chronic disease research. English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbBFTVwKOzE French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj7tfI_ay04
Congratulations to Nathan Smith & colleagues!! Based on his MSc research, this is important foundational work examining toenails as biomarkers for arsenic speciation that Atlantic PATH and the HERC Lab continue to build on. https://bit.ly/332UU0r
The Government of Canada is investing $1.9m through the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF) to fund an extension of CanPath’s COVID-19 Antibody Study over a longer period of time, allowing for additional collection of blood samples and questionnaires. The CanPath COVID-19 Antibody Study is implemented in collaboration with CanPath’s regional cohorts, including Atlantic PATH, CARTaGENE (Quebec), Read more about CanPath to Study the Impact and Immune Response to COVID-19 Infection and Vaccination[…]
We are pleased to share that the protocol for the PSY-CA consortium on psychosocial factors and cancer incidence has been published. Led from the Netherlands by Dr. Lonneke van Tuijl and Dr. Joost Dekker, this study includes 18 cohorts including Atlantic PATH, the Ontario Health Study and CARTaGENE from CanPath. https://bit.ly/38B8oQc
Congratulations to Dr. Gabriela Ilie, Dr. Rob Rutledge and Dr. Ellen Sweeney on their publication in Current Oncology! This is the third article in a series of research on prostate cancer survivors in Atlantic PATH funded by Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute. It examines the post-treatment adverse health correlates among prostate cancer survivors in Atlantic Read more about New Pulication: Post-Treatment Adverse Health Correlates among Prostate Cancer Survivors in a Sample of Men Residing in Atlantic Canada[…]
Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Stevens, Dr. Pantelis Andreou and Dr. Daniel Rainham on their publication on environmental correlates of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and self-rated health in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention. https://bit.ly/2Vi6FvO