Program Schedule

I. Models for studying Biobehavioral Contributions to Cancer Risk and Progression

Stephen Rappaport, PhD

The Exposome: Using a “top-down” model to study endogenous and exogenous environmental exposures affecting cancer risk and progression across the lifespan

Martha McClintock, PhD

Ethology: Considering both the environment and the individual’s biological responses to study cancer risk and progression across the lifespan

Debate and Discussion

  • Focus on Exposure vs. Evolution: What difference does it make for studying biobehavioral contributions to cancer risk and progression?

 

II. STRESS: Embedding Individual Experience – via Biological and Molecular Pathways

Erica Sloan, PhD

Stress and beta-adrenergic signaling in metastatic processes

Michael Antoni, PhD

Stress management effects on biological and molecular pathways

Dialogue with audience

  • Led by Steve Cole, PhD: Translation of implications of embedding individual experience via biological and molecular pathways.

 

III. ENERGY BALANCE: Embedding Individual Behavior Differences via Biological and Molecular Pathways

Christine Friedenreich, PhD

Physical Activity influences on cancer risk and progression

Jennifer Ligibel, MD

Diet and Weight influences on cancer risk and progression

Dialogue with audience

  • Led by Suzanne Conzen, MD: Embedding individual behavior differences via biological and molecular pathways

 

IV. CONTEXT: Embedding Social Processes via Biological and Molecular Pathways

Susan Lutgendorf, PhD

Social factors affecting cancer risk and progression

Robert Hiatt, MD, PhD

Environmental exposures and the onset of puberty as a window on adult breast cancer

Dialogue with audience

Led by Martha McClintock, PhD: Translational implications of embedding social processes via biological and molecular pathways

 

V. Closing Keynote and Reception Dialogue

Suzanne Conzen, MD

Toward Precision Cancer Care: Informed by Biobehavioral Contributions to the Exposome