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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2006 98(2):88-89; doi:10.1093/jnci/djj044
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© Oxford University Press 2006.

NEWS

Years of Research Come to Fruition With Launch of Oral Cancer Prevention Trial

Nancy J. Nelson

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Although news headlines and research dollars have focused largely on advances made in cancer treatments, prevention researchers are hard at work developing methods to stop cancer early—before it can even be called cancer.

At the October American Association of Cancer Research's Fourth Annual Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research conference in Baltimore, Scott Lippman, M.D., was honored with the Excellence in Cancer Prevention Research award. Lippman, professor of medicine and cancer prevention and chair of the Department of Clinical Cancer Prevention at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and his colleagues have been working for many years on strategies to delay oral cancers and, as a culmination of those efforts, will launch a chemoprevention trial early this year.


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