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Questionnaire 6
What Are We Studying?

Jul 31
2 min

The CTS at 25

Using CTS data, researchers have generated important scientific contributions about risk factors for breast cancer & other health outcomes.

Jun 24
5 min

Why I participate in the CTS

In commemoration of the California Teachers Study's 25th anniversary, we asked study participants to share why they first joined the stud...

May 1
2 min

Meet a CTS Researcher

Dr. Charlie Zhong shares how his work on the California Teachers Study has shaped his future research goals.

Mar 17
2 min

Studying Air Pollution and Breast Cancer Survival

Researchers are turning their attention to understanding how air pollution affects what happens after a breast cancer diagnosis.

Feb 25
3 min

Learning what participants want

The California Teachers Study and the consumer-wide web were born the very same year. Since 1995, technology has transformed how people c...

Jan 31
2 min

The CTS' Data Culture

Two things really make the California Teachers Study tick: our participants, and the tremendous data they continue to provide to this Study.

Nov 22, 2019
2 min

Studying Risk Factors for Second Primary Cancers

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States. This year alone, approximately 268,000 women will be newly diag...

Oct 30, 2019
2 min

Studying Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption

What is the association between sugar-sweetened beverage and risk of cardiovascular disease, colorectal cancer, and mortality?

Sep 13, 2019
2 min

How does social support affect happiness?

About the Author My name is Julie. I am a high school senior and I joined the California Teachers Study as a summer intern. I excel in th...

Aug 30, 2019
2 min

CTS Summer Student Investigates Sleep and Cytokines

About the Author My name is Sarah and I am a university student majoring in in biological sciences. I compete on the Women’s Volleyball t...

Jul 23, 2019
2 min

How the CTS is using visualizations to drive research

Nadia Chung, a biostatistician working on the California Teachers Study, uses her mouse to drag a new variable into the graph displayed o...

Apr 12, 2019
2 min

Studying Diet and Breast Cancer

The research question: What is the relationship between diet and risk of developing breast cancer? Research on the association between di...

Jan 17, 2019
2 min

Meet the Staff: The Research Assistants

The Research Assistants on the California Teachers Study help with the essential tasks of keeping our projects and team running. They rec...

Dec 11, 2018
2 min

Studying Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

The research question: What are the risk factors of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)? How much of the risk of developing NHL can these factors ...

Nov 15, 2018
2 min

Meet the Staff: The Data People

Meet the individuals who manage all of our study data! Our data team manage everything from new questionnaire data to the analyses that h...

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