Obesity
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Receives $8.2M to Coordinate Major Initiative to Study Link Between Obesity and Cancer
Published in Cancer Weekly, August 9th, 2011
2011 AUG 9 -- The National Cancer Institute has awarded $8.2 million over the next five years to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to extend its role as the coordinating hub of a nationwide research consortium that aims to better understand the link between obesity and cancer. The $45 million, five-year initiative also will study the underlying behavioral causes of obesity and ways to prevent it, particularly among children, cancer survivors and others at high risk.
The Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer initiative, called TREC, involves a diverse team of researchers from across the United States. The network's research projects range...
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