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    • Chemical substances or drugs used to prevent disease
    • Agent discovery and development, mechanisms of action, and testing in model systems and patients
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    • Herbs, supplements, or other interventions not traditionally used to prevent cancer
    • Discovery, development, testing of different approaches
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    • Personal behavior factors that may cause or increase risk of cancer: diet, physical activity, sun exposure, tobacco use
    • Interventions to change these personal behaviors
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    • Effects of nutrients and nutritional status on cancer incidence
    • Dietary assessment efforts (dietary questionnaires, surveys)
    • Development and validation of these instruments
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    • Discovery, mechanisms of action, and testing of vaccines for cancer prevention
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    • Scientific resources that support prevention research
    • Informatics networks, specimen resources (serum, tissue, etc.)
    • Clinical trials infrastructure, statistical or biostatistical methods
    • Epidemiological studies
    • Education and training of investigators
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