Global Cancer: Occurrence, Causes, and Avenues To Prevention 2016

Topics

• Early stage detection
• Cancer research investment should shift from late stage treatment to
• Systems perspectives of the exposome
• Global burden of cancer and cancer registries
• Tobacco and alcohol in cancer
• Challenges in primary prevention
• Screening and early detection
• Mechanisms in carcinogen evaluation
• DNA damage, repair and mutagenesis
• Nutrition, obesity and exercise
• E cigarettes represent a barrier to effective tobacco control
• Chemoprevention
• Infection control to prevent cancer
• Genetics and (epi)genomics
• Screening for lung cancer should be implemented now