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Adult
Cancer Research Core |
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Objectives |
- To identify new or provide more detailed evaluation of known environmental causes of adult cancer.
- To identify new or provide more detailed evaluation of known environmental factors which enhance or reduce the rate of adult cancer progression.
- To identify or develop improved methods of exposure assessment for environmental carcinogens.
- To develop methods to identify individual or population susceptibility to environmental carcinogens, focusing on regulatory mechanisms for metabolism of carcinogens or repair mechanisms for carcinogen induced DNA damage between individuals or populations.
- To identify environmental exposures which alter penetrance of "cancer susceptibility" genes and to quantify these gene-environment interactions.
- To provide an infrastructure to promote communication between laboratory scientists and epidemiologists for the purpose of developing interdisciplinary research on environmental causes of adult cancer.
- To participate in community education and outreach regarding the environmental causes and strategies for preventing adult cancer.
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