title: The future of cancer prevention.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To hypothesize on the future of cancer prevention based on past and current progress of the field, as well as possible assimilation of knowledge in other fields that may be applied to cancer prevention.
  
  
  METHODS
  Peer-reviewed research and federal government reports.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Cancer prevention will exist in the future as an important public health strategy involving lifestyle and medical approaches that include behavior in relation to risk factors, chemoprevention, biomarker assessment, vaccines, and emerging technologies to better identify individuals at risk for cancer.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the future nurses will play an enhanced role in cancer prevention through their efforts supporting risk assessment, education, and medical approaches in an expanded role with diagnostic testing, and support for prevention clinical trials.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6130 Executive Blvd, Room 2040, 31 Center Dr, MSC 2580, Bethesda, MD 20892-7309, USA. pg37g@nih.gov
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Greenwald
mesh_terms: D015400:Clinical Nursing Research; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009859:Oncology Nursing; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D018570:Risk Assessment