NIH R01 · 2025
Cancer is a critical national health issue with over 2 million new cancer diagnoses annually within the U.S. and over 600,000 cancer-related deaths. Preventive actions from childhood and adolescence holds great promise in preventing cervical, anal, penile, vaginal, vulvar, and oropharyngeal cancer later in adult life. Yet, little is known about how to leverage this and other facilitators of cancer prevention behaviors in adolescents. Additionally, studies have also revealed multilevel, multifactorial barriers to improving cancer prevention recommendations and critical limitations of health system support. Despite this knowledge, many prior cancer prevention studies in adolescents focus on…
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