One thing we're trying to do at the moment, since it's tough for one site to collect a lot of data, is collaborate with sites across Canada--for example, with Saskatoon. I'm meeting with Quebec City people a week from now, and hopefully with other groups. We'll combine all of their data, so instead of having 50 patients from each site in a few months, we can do 1,000 patients in a few months by bringing this data together. Otherwise, the current rate of research, in both the U.S. and Canada, is so slow under conventional granting circumstances that it would be years before this data could be collected. But with a simple collaborative effort we can do in months what would otherwise take years to create a database.
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