The overall goals of Cancer Control research at Michigan State University are to understand the environmental, genetic, and psychological underlying cancer (etiology, risk, prevention, diagnosis, and prognosis).
Research Topics
- Specific mechanisms and biomarkers of obesity-promoted cancer (Bernard)
- Phytochemicals as alternative approaches to cancer prevention and treatment (Doseff)
- Vitamin D to decrease cancer-related mortality after diagnosis (Haykal)
- Air pollutants in the induction and progression of lung cancer (Li)
- Cancer registries and risk for cancer after assisted reproductive technology (Luke)
- Molecular and biochemical mechanisms of action of environmental toxicants (Madhukar)
- High-fat diet on mammary tumorigenesis (Schwartz)
- Role of environmental factors and carcinogens in cancer (Upham)
- Natural products in preventing the effects of toxic environmental factors (Upham)
- Impact of foodborne toxins and nutrition impact liver cancer (Wu)
- Acupressure with breast cancer survivors (Wyatt)