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Analytical Cancer Epidemiology Lab
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An epidemiology lab that explores cancer prevention based on lifestyle and genetic constitution.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring cancer prevention through lifestyle and constitution.
The Cancer Prevention Division conducts research that builds evidence for cancer prevention by considering both environmental and genetic factors.
Using molecular epidemiology methods, it examines the combined effects of environmental factors such as lifestyle and genetic factors, which correspond to inborn constitution.
By analyzing lifestyle questionnaires and genetic information from patients who visit the hospital together, it aims to establish cancer prevention methods suited to each individual's constitution.
The lab is located at the Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute and is introduced on its website under the name "Cancer Prevention Division."
Key terms
- Molecular epidemiology
- The science that combines genetic background with environmental factors such as lifestyle to study how diseases occur and how they can be prevented
- Hospital-based epidemiologic study
- Research that asks patients visiting a hospital to complete questionnaires and provide blood samples, and analyzes how diseases arise
- Interaction
- An effect produced by the combination of environmental and genetic factors
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to build evidence for cancer prevention by considering both environmental and genetic factors, and to develop prevention methods tailored to individuals. Its foundation is the Hospital-based Epidemiologic Research Program at Aichi Cancer Center (HERPACC), which has been ongoing for many years and uses patients' lifestyle questionnaires and information obtained from their blood.
*Illustrative imageFactors Related to Cancer Risk
The lab explores what underlies the differences between people who are prone to cancer and those who are not. It examines environmental factors such as lifestyle, genetic factors, and their interactions, and considers how to use them in cancer risk assessment.
*Illustrative imageLifestyle and Treatment Outcomes in Cancer Survivors
In cooperation with Aichi Cancer Center Central Hospital, the lab investigates how lifestyle and genetic background relate to the treatment outcomes of cancer patients. In the future, it aims to propose the lifestyle habits needed to improve treatment outcomes.
*Illustrative imageInternational Collaboration with Researchers Worldwide
Because the causes of cancer may be specific to Japanese people or common to all humans, the lab participates in frameworks for collaborative research with researchers around the world. These include international consortia on head and neck cancer, lung cancer, and breast cancer.
*Illustrative imageBreast Cancer Prevention Intervention Research
For breast cancer, the lab builds risk prediction models that combine environmental and genetic factors. In collaboration with other universities and institutions, it is advancing prevention intervention trials that use these models, as well as projections such as the economic effects of prevention.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Cancer Prevention Division include the division head, unit head, researchers, research residents, institute technicians, visiting researchers, and voluntary trainees.
- Affiliated ProfessorKeitaro Matsuo
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “DNA damaged by carcinogenic 2-aminofluorene AF” Brian E. Hingerty, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Suse Broyde, New York University Dinshaw J. Patel, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center / Public domain (cropped)
- Factors Related to Cancer Risk: “20251019 Replica DNA double helix model Berlin 03” Flocci Nivis / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Lifestyle and Treatment Outcomes in Cancer Survivors: “Healthy Deit For A Healthy Well Well and Leave” Ceciliaakan / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- International Collaboration with Researchers Worldwide: “Mercator projection SW” Strebe / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Breast Cancer Prevention Intervention Research: “Breast Cancer Awareness Month” Federal Government / Public domain (cropped)
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