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Cancer Prevention and Control 

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Cancer remains the second most common cause of death in the United States.  It is currently estimated that one of every two American men and one of every three American women will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime.  In Connecticut, approximately 20,000 people are diagnosed with cancer each year.  Age is an important risk factor for many common cancers, so as our population ages we can expect the burden of cancer to increase and further tax our health care system.

It has been recognized for many years that cancer risk is determined by the interaction of lifestyle factors and genetics.  Identifying lifestyle factors such as tobacco use that contribute to cancer and intervening appropriately has been proven to significantly impact on the cancer burden.  However, for many cancers, the causes remain unclear.  The Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program strives to conduct cutting-edge research to identify the causes of human cancers, and then use behavioral and other approaches to translate these findings into public health interventions to reduce cancer incidence, cancer morbidity, and mortality. 

Yale is home to the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in the State of Connecticut, and our mandate is to lower cancer rates throughout our state, and for cancer survivors, to improve outcomes and quality of life for patients and their families.  This has been greatly facilitated by key partnerships throughout the State that have been maintained for nearly three decades.  Connecticut is thus a “population laboratory” for cancer prevention and control research, where discovery, implementation, and evaluation are occurring simultaneously.

Program Members

Susan T. Mayne, PhD, Program Director; Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health

Ruth McCorkle, P.D, Co-Director; Florence Schorske Wald Professor of Nursing

Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health

Brenda Cartmel, PhD, Research Scientist, Epidemiology and Public Health

John Concato, MD, Associate Professor, VA Medical Center

Mark Cullen, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine

Cary Gross, MD, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine

Theodore Holford, PhD, Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health

Melinda Irwin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health

Selby Jacobs, MD, Professor of Psychiatry

Beth Jones, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health

Nina Kadan-Lottick, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Stanislav Kasl, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health

M. Tish Knobf, PhD, Professor of Nursing

Haiqun Lin, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health

Donald Lannin, MD, Professor of Surgery

Xiaomei Ma, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health

Stephanie O’Malley, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry

Carrie Redlich, MD, Professor of Medicine

Harvey Risch, MD, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health

Peter Salovey, PhD, Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology

Sheila Santacroce, PhD, Associate Professor of Nursing

Dena Schulman-Green, PhD, Research Scientist, Nursing

Marianne Ulcickas-Yood, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Epidemiology and Public Health

Herbert Yu, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health

Yawei Zhang, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health

Tongzhang Zheng, BMed, ScD, ScM, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health

Yong Zhu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health

Research Highlights

Contact
Susan T. Mayne, PhD, Program Director
(203) 785-6274
susan.mayne@yale.edu