What Is The Canadian Neuromuscular Disease Registry (CNDR)?
Since June 2011, The Canadian Neuromuscular Disease Registry (CNDR) for patients with neuromuscular disease helps patients connect with researchers to participate in clinical research that may benefit patients by offering possible new therapies, treatments and understanding of their disease.
“This is a tremendous opportunity for patients, healthcare professionals, and researchers, to connect and improve research into neuromuscular diseases across Canada” says Dr. Lawrence Korngut the national principal investigator from the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Medicine, and a member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute.
The CNDR is a Canada-wide database of patients who have been diagnosed with a neuromuscular disease. The term “neuromuscular disease” refers to a group of more than 40 diseases that affect how muscles and nerves work. ALS is the most well-known of these diseases in adults, and Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common pediatric muscular dystrophy.
The Canadian Neuromuscular Disease Registry (CNDR) includes 17 clinics across Canada located in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Toronto, London, Kingston, Montreal and Halifax
WHY PARTICIPATE?
The Registry is the only means by which valid national epidemiologic data about ALS can be obtained.
Patients with neuromuscular disease benefit from this new national registry. Shelagh Mikulak has ALS and joined the registry because it gives her hope that “with the information available to researchers there will be a significant increase in the number of studies leading to discovering the cause, treatment and cure of ALS”.
Finding treatments for neuromuscular diseases has been challenging, as patients are scattered across the country. This registry will allow doctors and researchers to look at medical data from large groups of patients helping them to find better ways to manage each disease.
To Registrer
All patients including adults and children across Canada who have been diagnosed with a neuromuscular disease are able to join the registry. Click here to go to the Registry website.
The CNDR is supported by the ALS Society of Canada, Jesse’s Journey and the Marigold Foundation.
For more information about the registry please visit cndr.org