Program Activities
- Anticipate growth in communications research aimed at adoption of cancer behaviors
- With increased emphasis on interventions
- Translational projects with FMRI
- Anticipate growth in communications research aimed at patient decision-making
- Trials of decision aids
- Basic work into how patients understand medical information
- Anticipate continuation of strong registry research
- Colon cancer registry funding
- Anticipate dissemination research on screening in office settings
- Increased publication on technology assessment
- With the completion of the LCST
- Anticipate R01-level projects on use of problem solving for symptom management and preservation of function in patients with cancer
- More research directed at understanding why outcomes of cancer care vary by region
- More collaboration with TDI both in the area of outcomes research and in the education program
