This picture shows where I have been working for the past week in the Nutrition department of HSPH. These piles of papers all have the files of over 300 males who participated in the "Health Professionals Follow-Up Study," a study where one aspect dealt with colon polyps. The first day I got to the office, I was given a 7 page list of ID numbers, one for each participant. I then had to go into the filing room and search for the files of all of the participants, and check them off on the list once they were found. Once all of the files were pulled, I then started sifting through all of the paperwork in each file in order to find the patient's pathology report as well as their signed consent form in order to make two copies of each. As I did this, I read over some of the reports and I thought it was interesting to see that there were different kinds of cancerous polyps that could be inside one's colon that had to be removed. I am happy to say that I am just about done making the copies and I'm excited to see what I will be doing next with the information in this study!
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