How will the Tomorrow Project contribute to the study of rare cancers?
In order to examine the causes of rarer cancers, there is a need to recruit hundreds of thousands of people who are willing to be followed over a long period of time. That is the rationale for Alberta joining the pan-Canadian cohort which will enroll about 300,000 participants. In addition, we have joined the Public Population Project in Genomics (P3G) which aims to promote collaboration between researchers around the world who are developing similar very large studies. Such collaboration and harmonization of effort will result in the construction of de-identified datasets that are large enough to answer questions about many different kinds of cancers, and potentially other long-term health conditions.
