title: Nutrition and cancer education at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The status of nutrition education at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center since the 1980s is discussed.
  
  
  METHODS
  A needs assessment with emphasis on nutrition education activities in the medical school curriculum led to the successful application for a NCI R25 Cancer Education Grant in 1988.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A nutrition elective, Nutrition and Cancer, for health professions students and a section of the Biochemistry course, Principles of Nutrition, were generated. These have persisted to the present despite the scheduled expiration of the R25 grant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Topic-directed NCI Cancer Education Grants can stimulate and facilitate successful approaches to defined cancer education needs. The resulting activities can, and should, persist after the expiration of such grants.
authors.affiliation: Office of Cancer Education, University of Colorado Cancer Center, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80262, USA. richard.bakemeier@UCHSC.edu
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Bakemeier
mesh_terms: D003120:Colorado; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D009369:Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000193:education*; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D012577:Schools, Medical; D014481:United States