Does Vigorous Exercise Prevent Breast Cancer in Women
Abstract
The purpose of the IDEA award is to establish a cohort of 50,000 vigorous exercisers, provide data on questionnaire validity and provide pilot data on surveillance. (Funding for surveillance will be deferred to a future funding application.) During this first year of funding, we finalized the design of the survey questionnaire and obtained approval from human subjects for its use, determined the best recruitment strategy for recruiting 50,000 women runners, obtained the names of over one-half million women runners, delivered the questionnaire to be printed and collated, arranged for their mailing, and designed the system for archiving the surveys as they are received. We had originally intended to create the cohort of 50,000 runners by combining our original cohort of 14,000 women runners collected between 1991 and 1996 with surveys from an additional 36,000 women runners recruited through the current grant. However, the consent for human subjects obtained for the initial 14,000 women runners is inconsistent with the Department of Defense human use protocol, hence we will create a de novo sample of 50,000 women runners. We expect to obtain all 50,000 questionnaires by the end of January, 1999.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA368407
Entities
People
- Paul T. Williams
Organizations
- University of California, Berkeley