The Scientific Committee have designed the programme to cover six main themes.
Diagnosis and therapy
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Screening technologies and diagnostic markers.
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Estimation of prognosis and identification of individuals at increased risk of cancer.
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Factors associated with stage of diagnosis and clinical outcome.
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All types of therapy and all phases of development and testing.
Epidemiology and prevention
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Population-based research aimed at understanding causation, incidence, trends, and risk (such as environmental and genetic risk).
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Research on prevention (for example, lifestyle and nutritional factors), including individual and community interventions.
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Health services research
Quality and cost of healthcare and coordination of care
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Development and testing of healthcare delivery methods.
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Access to healthcare including primary care and screening services.
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Information, patients and the public
Public policy issues, ethics and confidentiality
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Education and communication about cancer.
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Involvement of patients and public in deciding research priorities.
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Patient-led research.
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Survivorship and end of life care
Living with and beyond cancer: physical, psychological and social impacts and their management
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Research into care at the end of life.
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The cancer cell and model systems
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of oncogenesis and tumour suppression
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The tumour microenvironment.
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Cell biology relevant to cancer.