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Researchers and Staff
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, MacMillan Auditorium
Friday, October 30, 2009
8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Directions: www.arboretum.umn.edu
Pre-registration is required:
Please R.S.V.P. to Kathy Longley (klongley@umn.edu).
Retreat organizers:
Dorothy Hatsukami, Associate Director, Cancer Prevention and Control
Stephen Hecht, Program Leader, Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention
DeAnn Lazovich and Anne Joseph, Program Leaders, Prevention and Etiology
Joe Neglia and Beth Virnig, Program Leaders, Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship
Agenda |
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Time |
Topic |
Speaker |
8:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
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8:30 a.m. |
Introductions |
Dorothy Hatsukami |
8:45 a.m. |
The prostaglandin-aromatase connection: Implications for breast carcinogenesis |
Andrew Dannenberg |
9:45 a.m. |
What epidemiology can tell us about cancer prevention |
Jian-Min Yuan |
10:15 a.m. |
Break |
|
10:30 a.m. |
Why we can't stop eating |
Al Levine |
11:00 a.m. |
Tobacco: Minnesota Adolescent Cohort |
Jean Forster |
11:30 a.m. |
Lunch |
|
1:00 p.m. |
Treating risk factors for colon cancer prevention |
Eugene Gerner |
2:00 p.m. |
Cancer screening: PSA |
Timothy Church |
2:30 p.m. |
Break |
|
2:45 p.m. |
Role of Vitamin D and cancer |
Kim Robien |
3:15 p.m. |
Complex issues in studying health outcomes following early stage breast cancer |
John Pierce |
4:15 p.m. |
Panel discussion |
Stephen Hecht, |