Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program

Program Leaders: Carolyn J. Heckman, PhD and Elisa V. Bandera, MD, PhD
 

Overall Goals:

To engage in scientific discovery across the cancer control continuum (e.g., primary prevention to survivorship) that translates into empirically based interventions, clinical and public health practice, and policy strategies to reduce the cancer burden in New Jersey and beyond. 
 

Specific Aims:

• Advance the understanding of individual and contextual drivers of cancer risk, optimal treatment, cancer survivorship, and prognosis.
• Characterize and prevent tobacco use and guide effective tobacco control strategies at multiple levels to reduce cancer morbidity and mortality.
• Enhance cancer risk reduction, screening behaviors, and outcomes through the development and evaluation of novel interventions and implementation science.