The National Cancer Institute’s Last Mile initiative is exploring new ways at getting screening tests for cervical cancer into more hands. Women who die from cervical cancer often have had limited or no access to screenings… Learn more
POSTED: 7/31/2023
SOURCE: GovCIO Media and Research
Latest News, Upcoming Events, Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs): Health Disparities
POSTED: 7/25/2023
SOURCE: DCP Updates
After receiving an initial single dose of the HPV vaccine Gardasil 9, children aged 9 to 11 had high levels of two key antibodies that protect against HPV infections and cancer for up to 2 years before receiving their… Learn more
POSTED: 7/18/2023
SOURCE: Cancer Prevention Science Blog
In this issue, we present: IPVC Round Up, Women Living with HIV, ULACNet-301 opens in Brazil, ULACNet-202 Site Initiation Visits (SIVs) in Brazil & Mexico, and Training healthcare professionals caring for persons living… Learn more
POSTED: 7/13/2023
SOURCE: DCP News
Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs): Early Detection and Screening, Upcoming Lecture, Latest News
POSTED: 7/12/2023
SOURCE: DCP Updates
New cases of colorectal cancer in people under the age of 50 have been rising at an alarming rate over the past several decades. But younger adults aren’t routinely screened for colorectal cancer because the disease is still… Learn more
POSTED: 6/15/2023
SOURCE: NCI Cancer Currents blog
Latest News, Reminders
POSTED: 6/13/2023
SOURCE: DCP Updates
Results from two NCI-supported studies relating to symptom management were among the significant findings presented at the June 2023 ASCO meeting. The findings, which both incorporated data from patient-reported outcomes (… Learn more
POSTED: 6/13/2023
SOURCE: Cancer Prevention Science Blog
An estimated 153,020 men and women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2023, and 52,550 are expected to die of this disease. In two recent studies, researchers addressed the impact of overweight, obesity… Learn more
POSTED: 6/5/2023
SOURCE: Cancer Prevention Science Blog
Dr. Lori Minasian, deputy director for the Division of Cancer Prevention at NCI, explains the promise of multi-cancer detection tests as a tool for screening for multiple cancers.
POSTED: 5/30/2023
SOURCE: GovCIO Media and Research
Upcoming Events, Reminders
POSTED: 5/30/2023
SOURCE: DCP Updates
A blood test that may detect cancer has received attention recently. But, unlike other blood tests being studied to screen for cancer, it wasn’t designed for that purpose. This test is a prenatal blood test that analyzes… Learn more
POSTED: 5/17/2023
SOURCE: NCI Cancer Currents blog
Program News, Upcoming Events
POSTED: 5/16/2023
SOURCE: DCP Updates
More than a century after Aldred Scott Warthin, M.D., Ph.D., a pathologist at the University of Michigan, first suspected heredity lay behind one family’s numerous cancers, scientists have begun testing two experimental… Learn more
POSTED: 5/11/2023
SOURCE: DCP News
Despite intense research, liver cancer prevention remains a challenge. Current efforts are directed at underlying conditions that can significantly raise an individual’s risk, including hepatitis C infection, for which… Learn more
POSTED: 5/4/2023
SOURCE: Cancer Prevention Science Blog
Eleven DCP/PREVENT presentations were delivered at the 2023 AACR Annual meeting, including: five poster sessions, one informational session with four staff from the NCI Division of Cancer Prevention, and two staff sessions… Learn more
POSTED: 4/28/2023
SOURCE: DCP News
The NCI Division of Cancer Prevention Debuts Research Workforce Initiatives, Upcoming Events
POSTED: 4/25/2023
SOURCE: DCP Updates
Early-onset colorectal cancer is considered relatively rare, but both incidence and mortality rates are increasing in people under age 50. NCI recently issued a special research request for grant applications in areas such… Learn more
POSTED: 3/22/2023
SOURCE: Cancer Prevention Science Blog
PARTNRS is a strategic initiative to encourage and forge partnerships between oncologists and primary care providers to promote patient accrual into cancer symptom management trials funded by the NCI Community Oncology… Learn more
POSTED: 3/13/2023
SOURCE: DCP News
Researchers have recruited the first vaccine candidates to one of two new prevention trials that seek to immunize high-risk individuals against cancers associated with Lynch syndrome, the most common cause of hereditary… Learn more
POSTED: 2/8/2023
SOURCE: Cancer Prevention Science Blog
We present ULACNet-302 Estudio Oportunidad: An opportunity to improve the health of women living with HIV, Recruitment strategies for the ULACNet 201 study in Puerto Rico, and Use of a mobile application as a strategy to… Learn more
POSTED: 1/30/2023
SOURCE: DCP News
The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI’s) Board of Scientific Advisors (BSA) recently approved two new concept proposals aimed at expanding potential prevention interventions.
POSTED: 1/10/2023
SOURCE: Cancer Prevention Science Blog
A JNCI monograph on Engaging Older Adults in Cancer Clinical Trials Conducted in the National Cancer Institute Clinical Trials Network is available now. The articles, developed through working groups formed for an NCI… Learn more
POSTED: 12/21/2022
SOURCE: DCP News
This month’s Research Highlights focuses on provider and patient beliefs about mammogram screening frequency, and separately, provider barriers to engaging in shared decision-making with high-risk patients about the use of… Learn more
POSTED: 11/28/2022
SOURCE: Cancer Prevention Science Blog
The National Cancer Institute Division of Cancer Prevention has released three Funding Opportunity Announcements to accept applications to create the Cancer Screening Research Network (CSRN). The CSRN will conduct rigorous… Learn more
POSTED: 11/21/2022
SOURCE: DCP News