Newsletter Issue 3 April 2004

Introduction

Another busy year has passed in the CAPP office, with recruitment to the study doing well, and negotiations underway to add six new centres to our already existing 38 centres worldwide. These new centres include three here in the UK , Sao Paulo in Brazil , Toronto in Canada and Cape Town in South Africa . We are well and truly an International trial!

There have been changes to our staff. Beccy Dixon, our nurse recruiter in the CAPP office, left in September and her post has now been filled by Louise Lynagh. Julie Coaker, who worked in the pathology department at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle , left her post in September and her work is being covered by Michelle Youash, a microbiologist from our centre in Toronto , who is working in Newcastle for six months. Aimee Heaviside, a Nutritionist from the Nutrition Research Centre, at the University of Newcastle , has joined us to do a project on food diaries and urine collection. (See separate report).

Articles included in this newsletter cover some of the publicity CAPP has generated over the year, as well as a mention of the successful CAPP conference in Newcastle attended by Lynn Faulds Wood, UK TV presenter and investigative journalist. Lynn , has been a sufferer of bowel cancer, which prompted her to set up her own charity. Included with this newsletter is a brochure from " Lynn 's Bowel Cancer Campaign", which you may find interesting.

Please take a little time to read this newsletter, we hope you find it interesting and informative. If you wish to comment on any of the articles, have any items for the next newsletter, such as recipes for taking starch, or funny stories, please contact the CAPP office. If anyone would be interested in starting a "recruits comment/question" page please get in touch. These could be published anonymously and confidentiality assured.