American Cancer Society CPS-3

[Guest guest]

As a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society patient advocate I get to

represent LLS in different settings. The last meeting I was sent to was

the Somerset County (NJ) Cancer Coalition Meeting. It turns out that the

state of New Jersey has Cancer Coalitions in each county. What they do is

coordinate the cancer programs going on in the county and in the state so that

they all have information about what is going on.

At my first meeting that I attended a representative from

the American Cancer Society came to talk about the Cancer Prevention

Study-3. http://www.cancer.org/cps3.

Since this is nationwide I thought I would announce it here. This study

is for people who are between ages of 30 and 65 who have never been diagnosed

with cancer. The study will take place at the relay for life but the

person does not have to walk. They must show up and take part in the

survey and donate a blood sample which will be saved. They also must be

willing to take part in follow up surveys. For the details read the

website. You can also find locations in your state. I urge you as a

cancer patient to tell your cancer free friends and relatives to participate in

this study. It is free. The only problem might be finding a vein to

take the blood.

I have not read the information about the study, but as a

former researcher I decided, while swimming, that I know a research study that

should be done. Since CLL is found by a CBC which most people don't get I

thought that oncologists should partner with GP's or Internists or

Gynocologists to have a study in which a healthy 30 or 40 year old or whatever

age gives a tube of blood which will be saved or analyzed the the results saved

somewhere. Then later if this person develops CLL or another cancer the

first blood sample should be compared to the blood sample of the cancer

patients to see if some markers could have been identified earlier. Now I

have NOT looked at CPS-3 to see what they are going to do so these are my own

thoughts. I am going run this idea by my doctor to see what he

thinks.

Jeannette E. Brown

age 75, diagnosed Jan 2005, treatment RF Nov 2007, Remission

March 2008

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Patient Advocate