NCI Program Highlights

Putting Minds and Words Together: The NCI, C-Change Cooperative Effort in Communication

C-Change, including NCI, ASCO, and the other national cancer leaders from government, business, and nonprofit sectors, has worked to unite the entire cancer community around a core set of consumer-tested messages related to reducing people’s risk for cancer.

Physical Activity and Cancer Care

Richard Troiano, PhD, is an epidemiologist in the Applied Research Program of NCI’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS). In 2006, he joined the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion to help develop the first-ever federal 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, which were released in the fall of 2008. In the interview that follows, Dr. Troiano describes the development of the guidelines and how they affect cancer care.

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