Guide for Collaborators
Cancer Prevention Institute of California Overview In 1974, the deans of the medical schools at Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco, and the vice president of the American Cancer Society's California division founded the Northern California Cancer Program (NCCP) as an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing cancer through collaborative clinical research and community and professional education. In the 1980s, the NCCP was awarded a grant, making it an NCI-designated consortium cancer center, and the name of the organization was changed to the Northern California Cancer Center (NCCC). Starting in the 1980s, NCCC also began to be involved in population-science (surveillance, epidemiology, and cancer control), increasingly incorporating molecular, genetic, outcomes and clinical components into this research. In 2010, the organization changed its name to the Cancer Prevention Institute of California (CPIC) to reflect its mission to prevent cancer and to reduce its burden where it cannot yet be prevented. Cancer can only be prevented if we understand how it develops, and that is a substantial focus of the work CPIC researchers do. However, CPIC scientists conduct research across the cancer continuum--including prevention, causation, early detection, treatment, and survivorship--with many studies focusing on health disparities by race, ethnicity, or culture in specific populations with an unequal cancer burden.
Cancer Education and Community Partnership
The Cancer Prevention Institute of California Collaborative Project Areas II. Clinical Trials, Intervention Trials, Behavior Modification Trials III. Post license safety and surveillance of drug, vaccine, or nutritional therapies IV. Epidemiology: Consulting, Collaboration, and Independent Studies Links
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