Cancer Prevention & Control
Scientific Goals
The goals of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program are to reduce cancer incidence, morbidity and mortality by:
- Scientifically identifying and addressing modifiable risk factors and other risk reduction strategies, such as chemoprevention agents in adults and children, especially among high-risk underserved target groups;
- Conducting innovative research to improve screening and early detection technologies and overcome barriers to screening, also among underserved populations
- Understanding and addressing health and healthcare issues associated with cancer survivorship, including end of life care.
Focus Groups
The program has three Cancer Care Continuum Research Focus Areas, and one Integrated Focus Area, which cuts across the cancer care continuum themes, focusing on high-risk/underserved populations.
Care Continuum Research Focus Areas – Programmatic Themes
- Prevention/Risk Reduction: Investigators working in this focus area are conducting research on adult and childhood obesity reduction, health promotion in occupational settings, smoking cessation and the use of dietary supplements (omega 3 fatty acids) to reduce the risk of breast and prostate cancer, which has been an important area of collaboration with investigators in Program 3 (Solid Tumors). Additional innovative epidemiology research has focused on the influence of nicotine on lung cancer development as well as several studies on molecular epidemiology.
- Screening/Early Detection: Members in this program are working on innovative screening research for breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate cancer screening.
- Survivorship/Quality of Life: Research in this focus area is very diverse and includes studies of adult and children patients with newly diagnosed cancer, studies of adult and children patients actively undergoing treatment, studies on cancer survivors post treatment and cancer patients receiving end of life care.
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Cervical neoplasia American Indian Alaska Native Community-based participatory research |
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Appointments: Assistant Professor of Medicine |
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Mammography Cervical cancer screening Colorectal screening breast cancer research |
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Appointments: Director, Quality/Research/Magnet Recognition Program, Patient Care Services |
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health promotion obesity research eating disorders |
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Psychiatry (Geriatrics) |
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smoking cessation pharmacotherapies nicotine vaccine cancer prevention COPD |
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Appointments: Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine, OHSU OHSU — General Medicine |
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Information retrieval Search Health information technology workforce development Educational technology |
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asian Americans health disparity immigrant health Survivorship |
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symptom incongruence couples family communication and relationships survivorship |
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puberty thyroid diabetes and adrenal disorders; pediatric obesity; failure to thrive |
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Computational Biology Network Reconstruction Statistical Methodology for functional genomics data data cleaning and data integration |
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Appointments: Head, Division of Biostatistics Director, Biostatistics Shared Resource, OHSU Cancer Institute Director, Biostatistics & Design Program, Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute |
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Myeloma Breast Cancer Colorectal Cancer Pancreatic Cancer Sarcoma |
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Appointments: Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience? Professor, Department of Neurology ?Affiliate Scientist, Division of Neuroscience, ONPRC |
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diet epidemiology prostate cancer breast cancer |
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Communication prevention chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Lung Cancer |
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Appointments: Assistant Professor, Department of PHPM, OHSU Cancer Research Center Adjunct Research Scientist - CROET |
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Melanoma |
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Appointments: Associate Professor, School of Nursing |
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Appointments: Research Assistant Professor, Knight Cancer Institute, Bioinformatics Shared Resource |
External Program Members
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| Jeffery Fellows, Ph.D. | Kaiser |
| Mark C. Hornbrook, Ph.D. |
Kaiser |
| Carmit McMullen, Ph.D. | Kaiser |
| Victor Stevens, Ph.D. | Public Health & Preventative Medicine, Kaiser |
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Sheila Weinmann, Ph.D.
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Public Health & Preventative Medicine,
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