Branches

• Develops statistical methods and data resources to strengthen observational studies, intervention trials, and laboratory investigations of cancer.

• Conducts independent and collaborative research on the role of diet and nutritional status in cancer etiology.

• Integrates clinical observations into an interdisciplinary approach involving clinical, genetic, epidemiologic, statistical and laboratory methods to define the role of susceptibility genes in cancer etiology

• Conducts studies throughout the United States and around the world to identify and evaluate environmental and workplace exposures associated with the risk of cancer.

• Designs and conducts interdisciplinary clinical, epidemiologic, genetic, and laboratory studies of persons, families, and populations at high risk of cancer.

• Seeks to identify, quantify, and understand the risk of cancer in populations exposed to radiation, alone or in combination with other agents.

• Conducts research to identify groups at high risk of cancer, clarify the natural history of various cancers, understand the interactive effects of genetic and environmental factors on cancer risk, and elucidate biologic mechanisms of carcinogenesis.

• Conducts multidisciplinary studies of carefully selected domestic and foreign populations, with the goal of clarifying the relationship of infectious agents, especially viruses, to human cancer and other.