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Communication Update of the Cancer Study University of Pittsburgh is currently interviewing family members and cancer survivors. This is for the *cohort portion of study the study. If you or anyone you know is contacted by the cancer study researchers for the study we strongly recommend you to participate in this interview process. An Important Message from the Communications Facilitation Workgroup We Need Your Help! If you have been contacted by researchers to participate in the Pratt & Whitney Cancer Study, Please know that it is extremely important that each and every person respond in order for the case-control study to be scientifically valid. If you have already sent in your forms, and completed your interview, thank you. If you have been contacted and have NOT sent in your package, we still need you! The process to participate in the study is simple: Complete the authorizations in your information packet, and return it to the researchers. Researchers will contact you to participate in a short phone interview. ALL INFORMATION IS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL If you have misplaced your information packet, please contact the toll-free number or e-mail address below for a new one. Remember, the case-control study will only produce valid results if a large enough number of people agree to participate. If you know someone who worked for Pratt & Whitney and has been affected by brain cancer, and would like to participate in the case-control study being conducted by the University of Illinois and the University of Pittsburgh, please contact Zb Bornemann at zbornema@pitt.edu, or call the Department of Public Health at (860) 509-7270 The University of Illinois at Chicago has concluded the interview process for processes for the shop area’s. But you would like to have your names added to the list of concerned persons contact the Connecticut Department of Public Health at (860) 509-7270 Or contact Union Chief Safety Representatives: Paul Dickes, Middletown LL 700 (860) 345-2098 Rodney Conlogue, East Hartford LL 1746 (860) 565-3738 Chuck O’Neal, Cheshire LL 1746A (203) 250-4463 Debra Belancik District 26 EH&S coordinator (860) 565-4766 If you would like to know more information about the cancer study please follow the link below http://www.ct.gov/dph/cwp/view.asp?a=3140&q=387474 *A cohort is a group of people who share a common characteristic or experience within a defined period (e.g., are born, leave school, lose their job, are exposed to a drug or a vaccine, etc.). Thus a group of people who were born on a day or in a particular period, say 1948, form a birth cohort. The comparison group may be the general population from which the cohort is drawn, or it may be another cohort of persons thought to have had little or no exposure to the substance under investigation, but otherwise similar. Alternatively, subgroups within the cohort may be compared with each other. |