Relay for Life at Shea needs volunteers

During the May 17 Relay For Life at Shea Stadium, the American Cancer Society (ACS) will be looking for volunteers to take part in a cancer prevention study.
Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS3) will examine lifestyle and environment, combined with genetics, and how they can contribute to cancer.
From 4 to 8 p.m. on May 17, ACS will be signing up volunteers to take part in CPS3. Their goal is to get a total of 500,000 volunteers throughout the nation to participate in it.
Participants must be between 30 and 65 years of age with no previous cancer diagnosis.
Registration to take part in the study will take 30 minutes. Following registration, volunteers will be followed by ACS for 20 years. Every two years, they will be asked to complete a survey.
For CPS3, ACS is particularly looking to recruit African American volunteers, as well as members of other ethnic groups, to take part in the study. This is because “genetic susceptibility to cancer can differ by race, so without sufficient studies the mortality rate will continue to rise.”
According to the American Cancer Society, the rates of liver cancer are higher in Hispanics than they are in non-Hispanics. Among African American men, the rates of prostate cancer are higher. Also, African American men also have higher rates of lung cancer than white men and more die from it.
Registration for the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study-3 will take place from 4 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 17 at the Relay For Life at Shea Stadium. For more information, contact Rosetta Garrett at 347-255-1819 or volunteer@tmo.blackberry.net.