AMC Cancer Prevention and Control Program

The major goal of the AMC Cancer Prevention and Control Program is to foster inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional research in cancer prevention, cancer control, population science and survivorship to reduce the cancer burden in Colorado, the Rocky Mountain region, and the nation. This program includes 73 members representing over 20 departments and centers of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, School of Pharmacy and College of Nursing, and several UCCC collaborating institutions, including Colorado State University (Fort Collins), The Children’s Hospital, University of Colorado (Boulder), and the Veteran’s Administration. To facilitate these collaborations and future programs of research, the AMC Cancer Prevention & Control Program actively promotes, organizes, and facilitates lectures, symposia, and research planning meetings.

Scientific Goal

To foster inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional research in cancer prevention, cancer control, population science and survivorship to reduce the cancer burden in Colorado, the Rocky Mountain region, and the nation.

Program Goals

• To emphasize on-going programs of research in prevention and control that will reduce the overall incidence, morbidity and mortality from cancer in the Rocky Mountain region and the nation as a whole. 
• To foster new collaborations and programs of research spanning the full spectrum of cancer prevention and control, from primary and secondary prevention to cancer outcomes research. 

Program Activities

To facilitate these collaborations and future programs of research, the Prevention & Control Program actively promotes, organizes and facilitates lectures, symposia and research planning meetings.

Program Members

This program includes 73 members, representing 20 departments and centers of the University of Colorado Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and several UCCC collaborating institutions, including Colorado State University (Fort Collins), The Children’s Hospital, University of Colorado (Boulder) and the Veteran’s Administration. View member list. 

Earlier this year, and based in part on the recommendation of the UCCC External Advisory Committee, the Carcinogenesis/Chemoprevention program was eliminated. Ten members from the Carcinogenesis/Chemoprevention program, all of whom conduct chemoprevention research consistent with the main goal of the AMC Cancer Prevention and Control Program, were subsequently added as members. Eight of these new members joined the Cancer Prevention and Control Program as Full Members (i.e., Drs. Chapla Agarwal, Rajesh Agarwal, Lori Dwyer-Nield, Richard Irons, David Siegel, Henry Thompson, John Thompson and Vasilis Vasiliou), with the remaining two members (Drs. Robert Dellavalle and Numsen Hail) joining as Associate Members.

• To acknowledge the addition of the new program members from the former Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention program, and to promote additional and new opportunities for intraprogrammatic collaborations with these new members, Dr. Rajesh Agarwal has agreed to serve as Co-Program Leader for the AMC Cancer Prevention and Control Program.
• Four additional members have likewise recently joined the Cancer Prevention and Control Program as follows:
  • Dr. Jean Kutner (Full Member), who is active in palliative care and cancer survivorship research;
  • Dr. Holly Wolf (Full Member), who is active in cancer screening intervention research;
  • Dr. Alison Jones (Associate Member) who is involved in cancer survivorship research and is the Director of the UCCC LIVESTRONG Cancer Survivorship Center of Excellence; and
  • Dr. Elizabeth Ryan (Associate Member) who is active in diet and nutrition research.

Publications

From Oct. 1st, 2008 through Oct. 31st, 2009, the AMC Cancer Prevention & Control Program Members published 142 cancer-related publications. Of these, 37% (n = 52) were either inter- or intra-programmatic or both. This highlights the success of the UCCC in promoting collaborations among members of the Prevention & Control program and between Prevention and Control members and members of other programs. View full publications list.