What Does the Canadian Cancer Research Alliance (CCRA) Recommend?
The Research Action Group of the Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control (now the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer – CPAC), which in 2004 expanded to become the CCRA, has for more than three years been working to determine the most pressing research needs in cancer control. Through a process of broad consultation with researchers, health system and health services managers, and stakeholder groups including other CPAC Action Groups and cancer patients, CCRA has come to the conclusion that there are two essential and complementary approaches to cancer control – prevention and treatment. CCRA recognizes the importance of both a large-scale translational research initiative to expedite the uptake of advances in basic and clinical research into practice and policy and the creation of a cancer cohort to identify modifiable risk factors leading to prevention strategies. The case for translational research has been described in another document, “Cancer Control at a Crossroads: The Case for Tr
