A new 20-year study highlights the importance of ensuring access to arsenic-free drinking water and provides the first long-term, individual-level evidence that reducing arsenic exposure may lower mortality, even among people exposed to the toxic contaminant for years. 

About The Study: The findings of this study support an association between reduced arsenic exposure and improved health outcomes in populations exposed to contaminated drinking water.

Dr. Mina Sedrak, director of the Cancer and Aging Program and co-director of Cancer Control and Survivorship Research at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been awarded the King Hussein Cancer Research Award’s Young Investigator Award, which recognizes early-career scientists whose research is driving innovative and impactful advances in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment and survivorship.

The Ontario Hereditary Cancer Research Network (OHCRN) is a first-of-its-kind provincial registry that will collect and leverage critical data on all types of hereditary cancers to drive life-changing cancer innovations and provide support to Ontarians who have a higher chance of getting cancer because of their genetics.