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Public health and cancer prevention: Success and future challenges in cancer policy

Medical research has revealed much about cancer prevention, but is the information reaching all Americans, and are they acting on it? Today, at the American Association for Cancer Research's Sixth Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, being held from Dec. 5 to 8 in Philadelphia, Pa., researchers explore the question of how best to translate cancer prevention science into public health policy.

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