Our Global Network is dedicated to funding research and health education programmes into the links between food, nutrition, physical activity, body fatness and cancer risk.
Mechanisms work
Work is under way to develop and test some new methodology for conducting systematic reviews of mechanistic studies in relation to food, nutrition, physical activity, body fatness and the development and progression of different cancers.
This process began in 2012, when a a special group was convened to begin developing the methodology (see details of the Mechanisms Protocol Development Group below). This Group developed some initial guidance on how to systematically review evidence on mechanisms and cancer.
In September 2012, WCRF International awarded a grant to a team at the University of Bristol to further develop the guidance into a template protocol and test the feasibility of the approach. Dr Sarah Lewis (Principal Investigator) and Dr Martin Wiseman (WCRF International) spoke at the recent joint WCRF/IASO conference on Obesity, Physical activity and Cancer, about this work.
The Mechanisms Protocol Development Group members will continue to have an independent advisory role in this process together with other expert advisers for this work.
Mechanisms Protocol Development Group (MPDG)
Members
- Stephen D. Hursting, Chair
University of Texas
Austin, TX, USA - Steven K. Clinton
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA - Andrew J. Dannenberg
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY, USA
Associate member
- Nikki A. Ford
University of Texas
Austin, TX, USA
- Johanna W. Lampe
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA, USA
- Henry J. Thompson
Colorado State University
Colorado, CO, USA