Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Department of Health and Human Services

Integrates clinical observations into an interdisciplinary approach involving clinical, genetic, epidemiologic, statistical and laboratory methods to define the role of susceptibility genes in cancer etiology.

• Human Genetics Program - Established in 1996 to provide an expanded focus national institutes of health for interdisciplinary research into the genetic determinants of national institutes of health human cancer.
• Clinical Genetics Branch - Integrates clinical observations into an interdisciplinary approach involving national institutes of national cancer institute health clinical, genetic, epidemiologic, statistical and laboratory methods to national institutes national cancer institute of health define the role of susceptibility genes in cancer national national cancer institute institutes of health etiology.
• Genetic Epidemiology Branch - Designs and conducts interdisciplinary clinical, epidemiologic, genetic, and cancer epidemiology and national cancer institute genetics laboratory studies of persons, families, and populations at cancer epidemiology national cancer institute and genetics high risk of cancer.
• Nutritional Epidemiology Branch - Conducts independent and collaborative research on the role national institutes of health of diet and nutritional status in cancer etiology.
• Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch - Conducts studies throughout the United States and around national cancer institute national institutes of health the world to identify and evaluate environmental and national cancer institute national institutes of health workplace exposures associated with the risk of cancer.
• Biostatistics Branch - Develops statistical methods and data resources to strengthen observational studies, cancer epidemiology and genetics intervention trials, and laboratory investigations of cancer.
• Radiation Epidemiology Branch - Seeks to identify, quantify, and understand the risk cancer epidemiology and genetics of cancer in populations exposed to radiation, alone cancer epidemiology and genetics or in combination with other agents.
• Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program - Conducts independent and collaborative epidemiologic and biostatistical investigations national institutes of cancer epidemiology and genetics health to identify the distribution, characteristics, and causes of national institutes cancer epidemiology and genetics of health cancer in human populations.
• Viral Epidemiology Branch - Conducts multidisciplinary studies of carefully selected domestic and national cancer institute foreign populations, with the goal of clarifying the national cancer institute relationship of infectious agents, especially viruses, to human national cancer institute cancer and other diseases.

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