Cancer Prevention (CP) was built on the assumptions that changing lifestyle or environment during childhood and/or adult life can lower cancer incidence, that health behavior can be permanently changed, and that broad changes in cancer-related health behaviors can be made and maintained at the community level.

The major goals of Cancer Prevention are:

• to address research questions that relate to cancer etiology and risk factors, including the identification of genetic, biologic, nutritional, and behavioral modifiers;
• to conduct clinic- and community-based intervention studies in targeted populations to identify ways to reduce cancer morbidity and mortality;
• to develop and test novel screening and surveillance methods that can be readily translated into clinical practice with the goals of identifying individuals and populations at high risk for cancers;
• to train students and post-doctoral fellows in prevention research methods through formal grant-supported training programs.