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The Prevent Cancer Foundation is the only U.S. nonprofit organization focused solely on saving lives across all populations through cancer prevention and early detection. [3] Through research, education, outreach, and advocacy, the Foundation has helped countless people avoid a cancer diagnosis or detect their cancer early enough to be ...
The National Cancer Institute identifies health communication as an extraordinay research opportunity for promoting cancer prevention and control. The National Cancer Institute establishes the Health Communication Intervention research program, funding seven multi-year research projects to study innovative strategies for communicating cancer ...
Dr. Therese Bevers, medical director of the Cancer Prevention Center at MD Anderson, acknowledges that quitting smoking can be “difficult.” But, she adds, medications and behavioral therapy ...
In partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, and the Agency for Health Research and Quality, the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund/NRC produced Surgery Choices for Women with Early Stage Breast Cancer [2] and a Spanish language version, Las primeras ...
Cancer prevention is the practice of taking active measures to decrease the incidence of cancer and mortality. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The practice of prevention depends on both individual efforts to improve lifestyle and seek preventive screening , and socioeconomic or public policy related to cancer prevention. [ 3 ]
The AACR Foundation for the Prevention and Cure of Cancer is a 501(c)(3) public charity that provides financial support for scientific research, education, and communication. The foundation funds programs deemed by the AACR to be of the highest priority and impact in promoting research, supporting scientists, and raising awareness.
The Cancer Prevention Foundation was established in 2010. Ilya Fomintsev, an oncology surgeon, graduate of the medical faculty of Mordovian State University (2002) and the Department of Oncology of the St. Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (2004), became the co-founder and executive director of the fund. [1]
Psycho-oncology deals with psychological reactions to the experience of cancer, the behavioral component of coping with cancer as well as health behavior change including preventive medicine, and social factors that are associated with diagnosis and treatment of cancer, including communication with providers and loved ones and social support.