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Cancer Prevention and Control

Making healty choices in terms of diet and exercise may help prevent the development of cancer

Cancer prevention research explores methods to control the risks associated with the development of cancer, by studying the impact of certain beahviors over others (such as the impact of diet and exercise) as well as the effectiveness of early detection.

Stephen Gruber, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. is the Associate Director for the Cancer Prevention and Control Program. Dr. Gruber is also a professor of internal medicine and human genetics at the Medical School, and professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health. Dr. Gruber is the director of Clinical Cancer Genetics and co-director of the Biomedical Prevention program at the Cancer Center.

Cancer Prevention and Control has two sub-fields of inquiry:

• Biomedical Prevention
  Dean Brenner, M.D., co-director
  Stephen Gruber, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., co-director

  The Biomedical Prevention Program is organ focused, supporting vertically integrated research projects consisting of population and clinical epidemiology; risk assessment and education; interventions with pharmacology, behavioral, nutritional and educational tools; new biostatistical methodologies to study population clusters and surrogate endpoints, and outcomes assessment.

• Socio-Behavioral
  Laurel Northouse, PhD, RN., co-director
  Steven J. Katz, M.D., M.P.H., co-director

  The Socio-Behavioral Program was organized in 1996 to develop the social, behavioral and policy aspects of cancer prevention and control within the UMCCC. In its fourteenth year, the Socio-Behavioral Program has 32 members from 15 departments in five schools: Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, Social Work and Literature, Science and Arts, as well as the Institute for Social Research.

  The Socio-Behavioral Program focuses on four thematic areas:
  

  (1) Health Communications,
  (2) Health Services Research,
  (3) Quality of Life, and
  (4) Tobacco Control.

  Investigators from these thematic areas interact with investigators from other thematic areas, both within and outside of the Socio-Behavioral Program.

Updated 11/2010

See also:

• Browse Cancer Clinical Trials on UMClinicalStudies.org
  
  
• Department of Medical Education's web page
  Information on fellowships and other continuing medical education programs