The Cancer Prevention and Control Program

The Cancer Prevention and Control Program conducts the majority of cancer research for the University of South Carolina with the aim of reducing the burden of cancer across all communities in our state.

The Cancer Prevention and Control Program was founded in 2003 to investigate and begin to alleviate the stark health disparities present in South Carolina, especially those resulting in higher cancer incidence and mortality rates in the African-American community in our state. Virtually all of the University of South Carolina's epidemiologic cancer research is conducted here at the Cancer Prevention and Control Program, and much of our work focuses on modifiable risk factors, such as diet and exercise. We strongly believe that community members, both here in Columbia and across the state, should be engaged with our researchers as equal partners, so that those individuals and communities most profoundly affected by cancer are engaged in work that will directly affect their lives. We are committed to integrating service, education and research in engaging the community to further our mission of reducing the burden of cancer in our state.

Drs. James Hébert, Lorne Hofseth and Angela Murphy were recently awarded a U01 Grant by the National Cancer entitled “REMEDY: Reducing Metabolic Dysregulation in Obese Parents and Child Dyads”. The U01 project leverages the study team’s expertise in the epidemiology of colorectal cancer (CRC); disparities; obesity; metabolic dysregulation, an important manifestation of inflammation; the microbiome; animal CRC models; and lifestyle intervention trials to address the growing problem of Early-Onset CRC (EOCRC) (i.e., <50 years). Adiposity and diet drive metabolic dysregulation.

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