title: Individualizing interventions for cancer prevention.
abstract: Many cancer prevention strategies are unlikely to provide equal risk reduction in all subjects, but instead are predicted to be particularly useful for specific individuals. An important research challenge is to devise methods for individualization of cancer prevention recommendations, such that particular interventions are assigned to those who will gain the most. Research in this area is at an early stage, but progress that allows rational assignment of specific prevention strategies to particular individuals who will benefit would decrease the cost, minimize the toxicity, and increase the efficacy of interventions intended to prevent cancer.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Prevention Centre, McGill University, 3755 Cote Sainte Catherine Road, Montreal, QC, H3T 1E2, Canada. michael.pollak@mcgill.ca
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pollak
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012107:Research Design; D012307:Risk Factors
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents