What is it?

We are asking everyone who has an appointment in the North Carolina Hospital system to think about being part of an historic scientific effort. The goal of the HR/CSC is to better understand the causes of diseases, like cancer, which affect many North Carolinians.

We hope to enroll 10,000 North Carolinians in the Registry. This website is designed to explain what it means to enroll as a participant in the UNC Health Registry/Cancer Survivorship Cohort.

The purpose of this research is to collect information and biologic specimens that will be collected and stored together for use in different kinds of research; this is called a specimen "biobank." The purpose of this biobank is to serve as a resource for future research. Researchers use specimens and data from participants to study how genes, lifestyle and our environment may lead to disease and to study what things may affect how people do after they are treated.