Clinical trial NCT02334085: The Health of Women Study
Official title: The Health of Women (HOW) Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Breast Cancer
Lead sponsor: Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2015-01-08
Enrollment: 55008
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Women and men aged 18 and older, with or without breast cancer, and of all nationalities and ethnicities, from the United States and beyond, are encouraged to participate in the study.

Brief summary: The HOW Study is a first-of-its-kind international online study for women and men with and without a history of breast cancer. The investigators will collect information about your health, your job, your diet, and your family history, among other topics that can help us get a better understanding of breast cancer and its potential causes. Periodically, the investigators will send you questionnaires about anything and everything. All you have to do is fill them out online. It's that simple. This is a partnership and the investigators need you for the long haul. The more questionnaires you fill out, the more information the investigators will have that can help us have a better understanding of why women get breast cancer.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Men
* Women
* 18 years and older

Exclusion Criteria:

* Under the age of 18

Primary outcomes:
measure: Breast cancer diagnosis question
timeFrame: Participants will be followed for the duration of the cohort study, up to 20 years.
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
measure: Questions about general health status
timeFrame: General health status questions are available at baseline, just after enrolling in the HOW study. Participants will be followed for the duration of the cohort study, up to 20 years.
measure: Questions about personal and family health history
timeFrame: Health history questions are available after the completion of the general health status questions. Participants will be followed for the duration of the cohort study, up to 20 years.
measure: Questions about health, weight, and exercise
timeFrame: Health, weight, and exercise questions are available after the completion of the health history questions. Participants will be followed for the duration of the cohort study, up to 20 years.
measure: Questions about environmental exposures
timeFrame: Environmental exposure questions are available after the completion of the health, weight, and exercise questions. Participants will be followed for the duration of the cohort study, up to 20 years.
measure: Questions about health symptoms (quality of life)
timeFrame: Health symptom questions are available at baseline, just after enrolling in the HOW study. Participants will be followed for the duration of the cohort study, up to 20 years.
Locations:
city: Santa Monica
country: United States
facility: Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation
state: California
Study officials:
affiliation: Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation
name: Susan Love, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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