The data from more than 135,000 Ontario Health Study participants are being used to explore how breast cancer screening rates – and what happens subsequent to those screenings – may vary for people of different ethnicities. By linking self-reported health information with provincial health records, researchers aim to uncover potential disparities in access, follow-up care,

Funding from the 2024 FACIT Prospects Fund is being used to develop a technology that could identify breast cancer markers in the blood several years before that same cancer would normally be identified through a tumour biopsy. Previous data from Ontario Health Study participants were used to develop a proof of concept for this new

Photo: Dr. Victoria Kirsh, OHS Scientific Associate. Photo Credit: Greg Sigurdson   At a hybrid event presented live and via webinar on May 30, 2023, OHS Scientific Associate Dr. Victoria Kirsh provided an update on CanPath’s national COVID-19 Antibody Study. Using real-world data from the SUrveying Prospective Population cOhorts for COVID-19 pRevalence and ouTcomes in Canada