The ABC Study is currently in its third wave of follow-up, running from 2025 to 2027. As part of this follow-up, participants are invited to complete a short online questionnaire and may have the opportunity to contribute valuable physical activity data by wearing a wrist-worn monitor for 7 days.
This year marks an important milestone for Cancer Council Victoria: 40 years of pioneering work in cancer epidemiology, the research that helps us understand who gets cancer, why, and how we can prevent it.
It’s important to know the different ways we may contact you, and what to do if you receive a message that you’re unsure about.
For 40 years, Daffodil Day has brought Australians together to support people affected by cancer and help fund vital cancer research, like the ABC Study.
This Daffodil Day, Thursday 20 August, you can be part of that history. Your support helps make research like this possible and keeps hope growing for generations to come.
Do you know someone who has had a bowel cancer experience or who is an advocate for cancer screening? Cancer Council Victoria are looking for the next bowel screening hero who wants to share their cancer screening story with us.
Cohort studies take time, particularly when looking at cancer as an outcome. It will be several years before the ABC Study has collected enough data to begin analysing them. Here we report on a recent analysis (using data from our older cohort study – Health 2020) examining physical activity as a strategy to reduce the risk of developing cancer.
Researchers do not usually return genetic results to research participants, but there is an ethical duty to offer to do this when the genetic information is relevant to the participant’s health. In this article, we explain the ethical responsibility of research studies to return clinically actionable genetic results to study participants.
Biological samples provided by ABC Study participants are managed by the Precision Medicine team at Biobanking Victoria. Throughout the study, participants have provided saliva, poo and blood samples.