Connect for Cancer Prevention Study (Connect)
- Conditions
- CancerGeneral Research Use
- Registration Number
- NCT04609072
- Lead Sponsor
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- Brief Summary
Background:
The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has partnered with nine health care systems across the U.S. to establish the Connect for Cancer Prevention Study. While researchers have made important discoveries, there is more to learn to lower the number of people affected by cancer. By taking part in Connect, participants can help researchers learn how the way we live, our genetics, and our health history may affect cancer risk.
Objective:
To study and better understand the causes of cancer and to find new ways to prevent it.
Eligibility:
The study will include 200,000 adults who get their health care from a partner health care system, are between 30 and 70 years old at enrollment, and have never had cancer. People remain eligible to join if they have or once had non-melanoma skin cancer, or a condition that may raise cancer risk (such as ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS).
Design:
Eligible recruits can sign up for Connect online by creating an account on MyConnect using their email address or phone number. After creating an account, they will complete the informed consent process. All information shared through MyConnect is secure to protect participant privacy. After joining the study, participants will be asked to answer online health surveys a few times a year, donate samples of blood, urine, and saliva every two to three years, and safely share access to their electronic health records with Connect. In the future, participants may donate unused samples that are collected at clinical visits, like tissue, stool, or blood, and may mail in samples collected at home. Participants may also share information from personal health trackers, like wearable devices or apps.
This information will help researchers study the health and behavior patterns that may affect cancer risk.
It takes time to understand the causes of cancer, so Connect will go on for many years. The longer people participate, the more researchers may learn. Participants can leave the study at any time.
Learn more about Connect by visiting cancer.gov/connectstudy.
- Detailed Description
Study Description:
Connect is an observational cohort study that will prospectively collect exposure information and biospecimens and follow participants for cancer and other endpoints. Participants will be free of cancer at study invitation. Because most cancers develop over long periods of time and biological, behavioral and environmental factors can influence cancer development and change over time, participants will be asked to provide repeated exposure information and biological specimens. The study protocol takes advantage of developments in digital technologies as well as exposure and biomarker assessment tools to investigate suspected and emerging factors that can influence cancer development. The study data system will be built within an efficient, flexible and integrated cloud-hosted infrastructure that leverages modern interoperability standards in order to be an accessible research resource for current and future generations of scientists.
Objectives:
The primary objective is to build a state-of-the-art cohort in the US using new technologies and methods to provide a diverse and comprehensive research resource for the scientific community to study:
cancer etiology
precursor to tumor transformation
cancer risk assessment
early detection of cancer
second cancer development and survivorship after a cancer diagnosis
The secondary objective is to establish a rich database connected to a biorepository for general research use.
Endpoints:
The primary endpoints are the continuum of cancer incidence, detection, progression, and survival. Secondary endpoints are numerous and could include methodological research, human biology, ancestry, evolution or health-related outcomes.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 200000
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method cancer incidence, progression, and mortality year one and onward cancer incidence, progression, and mortality outcomes could include, but are not limited to:early biological effects (e.g., inflammation or metabolomic markers) related to cancer, intermediate biomarkers, cancer precursors, cancer risk factors, cancer incidence, cause of death, cancer survival, risk of second cancers and survivorship
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method general research use year zero and onward The endpoints are limitless and could include methodological research, human biology, ancestry, evolution or health-related outcomes.
Trial Locations
- Locations (10)
Baylor Scott and White Health
🇺🇸Dallas, Texas, United States
Kaiser Permanente Colorado
🇺🇸Denver, Colorado, United States
Kaiser Permanente Georgia
🇺🇸Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Kaiser Permanente Hawaii
🇺🇸Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
University of Chicago Medical Center
🇺🇸Chicago, Illinois, United States
Henry Ford Health Systems
🇺🇸Detroit, Michigan, United States
HealthPartners
🇺🇸Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Kaiser Permanente Northwest
🇺🇸Portland, Oregon, United States
Sanford Health
🇺🇸Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
Marshfield Clinic Health System
🇺🇸Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States