Clinical Cancer Prevention

Our goals

• To establish and conduct the highest quality collaborative translational and clinical research program investigating risk assessment, risk reduction interventions, cancer risk and early detection markers, and cancer screening
• To support and enable the Cancer Prevention Center to deliver cancer prevention, screening and surveillance services, to conduct state-of-the-art cancer research and to translate these research findings to the general population as the new standard of care
• To establish a cancer prevention education program to train the next generation of cancer prevention researchers, clinicians and health care providers
• To disseminate cancer prevention advances throughout MD Anderson, the community, the nation and the world.

Department objectives

Long term

• Expand the clinical application of basic science, translational, epidemiological and behavioral science research
• Promote and maintain multidisciplinary approaches, including the integration of personnel and resources of clinical and laboratory programs. Develop and enhance collaborations with other departments both within and outside the division (i.e., chemoprevention)
• Continue to evaluate ongoing molecular diagnostic activities related to genetic testing and facilitate strategic decision making regarding the services to offer at MD Anderson
• Continue to develop clinically relevant preclinical chemoprevention models through the prevention lab (e.g., tissue/organ gene knockout models)

Short term

• Complete faculty recruitment for the medical director position in Clinical Cancer Genetics and for an assistant/associate professor in clinical research
• Consolidate and expand current research programs in the areas of GI, GU, skin, breast and esophageal carcinogenesis
• Maintain leadership in accrual to the Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR)
• Implement the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT)
• Continue to strengthen and expand collaborations with the Carcinogenesis department at Science Park and the Center for Research on Environmental Diseases
• Significantly expand the overall laboratory program in terms of space and resources

Contact us

Physical address

1155 Pressler St., CPB6.3500
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: 713-745-3658
Fax: 713-794-4403 

Deliveries

Clinical Cancer Prevention Department
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Duncan Building (Room #), Unit 1360
1155 Pressler Street
Houston, TX 77030

Mailing address

Clinical Cancer Prevention Department, Unit 1360
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
P.O. Box 301439
Houston, TX 77230-1439