NEWS: August 19, 2019 (DCP News)

NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Expands to More States


The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded 53 grants to researchers in the NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) to conduct multi-site cancer clinical trials and cancer care delivery studies in their communities.

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NEWS: July 31, 2019 (NCI Cancer Currents Blog)

Study Suggests Reviewing Lung Cancer Screening Criteria for African Americans

Clinical recommendations on who should be screened for lung cancer are based largely on how long a person smoked and the number of cigarettes they smoked. But current recommendations may need to be reviewed when it comes to African Americans who...
NEWS: July 25, 2019 (DCP News)

Nutrition Frontiers - Summer 2019

Volume 10, Issue 3

Dear Nutrition Enthusiast,

The summer issue of Nutrition Frontiers showcases results of the VITAL trial – the Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial, along with how...
NEWS: May 24, 2019 (The Cancer Letter)

Why I choose to play a dual role in TMIST

By Worta McCaskill-Stevens

As a physician-scientist, I have spent my career advancing research in women’s health. I was a part of the planning effort to design and launch TMIST—the Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging...

The Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP) conducts and supports research to determine a person's risk of cancer and to find ways to reduce the risk

This knowledge is critical to making progress against cancer because risk varies over the lifespan as genetic and epigenetic changes can transform healthy tissue into cancer.

With an overall goal to detect such changes and intervene early in the cancer process to prevent symptomatic disease and death, DCP funds and provides support to clinical and laboratory researchers, community and multidisciplinary teams, and scientific networks. 

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