RICE LAKE, Wis. (WJMC) — Volunteers are sought to participate in a long-term cancer research study with the National Cancer Institute and Marshfield Clinic Health System.
The Connect for Cancer Prevention Study will have participants give samples and every few years and answer online health surveys a few times a year. It aims to research factors that affect cancer risk, ways to prevent cancer, methods to detect it sooner and improve health of cancer survivors.
Marshfield is recruiting 11,000 people for the study, between the ages of 30 and 70, with no personal history of cancer.
At Marshfield Clinic in Rice Lake, people can enroll in the study, March 11-12 or on April 23 and 24, from 7 a.m. until 5 p.m.
For more information on the study, go online to cancer.gov/connectstudy.
