What to know
CDC’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control conducts and supports studies to reduce cancer and eliminate health disparities.
Overview
CDC contributes data and scientific expertise on:
- Cancer prevention and risk behaviors.
- The quality and appropriate use of cancer screening.
- The cost and cost-effectiveness of cancer control programs.
- Health and wellness after a cancer diagnosis.
- Efforts to advance health equity.
CDC's latest cancer research
- BRCA testing utilization among commercially insured women with breast or ovarian cancer
- A multilevel partnership approach to increase colorectal cancer screening
- BRCA genetic testing utilization and expenditures among privately insured adults in the United States, 2013–2022
- Pediatric and young adult cancer incidence in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Use of cancer screening tests, United States, 2023
- Effectiveness and cost of implementing a patient navigation program to increase colorectal cancer screening in a large federally qualified health center
- Baseline estimates of colorectal cancer screening among adults aged 45 to 75 years, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2022
- Characterizing screening champions in CDC’s Colorectal Cancer Control Program
- Public understanding of and engagement with community health workers and promotores de salud: findings from two national surveys
- A comparison of family health history of breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and diabetes in self-reported survey and electronic health records data, All of Us Research Program