The Seventh Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research includes a series of cutting-edge translational research sessions that cover challenging new issues relevant to the crossover between behavioral science and biomedical processes. These exciting sessions will highlight innovative approaches to cancer prevention and control, including energy balance and physical activity, personalized assessment of cancer risk, and cancer health disparities. The Behavioral Science and Cancer Track brochure highlights aspects of the conference program of special significance to those wishing to learn more about research in the behavioral sciences and the biomedicine-behavior interface.
A special, free and open-to-all Behavioral Science Networking Event is scheduled for Monday, November 17, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. This enhancement to the conference experience will provide participants with the opportunity to learn more about the AACR and time to network among themselves. The AACR Task Force on Behavioral Science and Cancer encourages you to attend these sessions, but also to carefully review the entire conference program. The degree to which biomedical researchers become more informed about the contributions of behavioral science to cancer research and prevention – and the knowledge behavioral science researchers might gain from presentations on the biology of cancer – serves to foster critically needed disciplinary science and enhance our mutual goal of preventing cancer.