Cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the United States, but what can be done to prevent cancer or at least to detect it early enough to improve treatment outcomes? This course will cover the latest updates in our knowledge of cancer prevention and early detection topics including tobacco use, dietary factors, environmental risks, genetic testing, and early detection procedures. UCSF experts
from the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center will address specific areas of current interest and provide advice for individuals as well as policy options for reducing the impact of cancer in our society.
Course chair: Robert A. Hiatt, MD, MPH, Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Deputy Director and Director, Population Sciences, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; Co-Chair, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
October 15
Reducing the Chances of Getting
Cancer: What Are the Options?
Robert A. Hiatt, MD, MPH
October 22
Environmental Tobacco Smoke: A
Cause of Breast Cancer?
Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, Professor of Medicine,
Cardiology Division; Director, Center for Tobacco
Control Research and Education
October 29
Childhood at Risk: Chemicals in Our
Environment, Children and Cancer
Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, Associate
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and
Reproductive Sciences; Director, Program on
Reproductive Health and Environment
November 19
Hereditary Cancer: What are
the Signs?
Beth B. Crawford, MS, CGC, Director of Clinical
Services, Cancer Risk Program
December 3
Breast Cancer Screening: Who
Benefits Most?
Karla Kerlikowske, MD, Professor of Medicine
and Epidemiology & Biostatistics
December 10
Prostate Cancer Prevention and
Screening: Weighing Evidence to
Make Choices
June M. Chan, ScD, Associate Professor,
Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Urology
