The government-sponsored Our Future Health study aims to find better ways to prevent, detect and treat many diseases – including cancer and dementia – “as early as possible”.
The project includes, among other things, collecting health and genetic data and thus creating a “long-term health map of the individual”.
The scientists hope that the first set of conclusions and results of the study will be available “in the next few years”.
President of the program, prof. Sir John Bell said the ambition is “to use the results to fundamentally shift the focus of health systems towards early diagnosis and prevention”.
“People are being treated for illnesses that they may have had for 20 or 30 years and then become symptomatic. The whole healthcare system is designed to reduce the impact of those symptoms on people with terminal illness. illness,” he noted.
“We already know that most illnesses start many years before symptoms appear, and it’s in those early periods that you really have the opportunity to make a difference,” he added.
Invitations will be sent this autumn to more than three million people in London, West Yorkshire, the West Midlands and Greater Manchester. Over time, the scheme will be open to all UK adults.
BBC / Marcin R.
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