The group is organising a module on environment and health for the 2000 Ontario Health Promotion Summer School . The interest group stimulated the development of a book on cancer prevention for the public based on the report of the Task Force on the Primary Prevention of Cancer. A draft of the book is being reviewed for release in the fall of 2000. The group continues to meet monthly to share information on cancer prevention and to stimulate and participate in initiatives related to the primary prevention of cancer. The interest group plans to continue to meet monthly to share information and to stimulate and participate in initiatives related to the primary prevention of Cancer.
New members are welcome.
The group intends to stimulate, organise and support educational activities related to the primary prevention of Cancer including the environment and health component of the Ontario Health Promotion Summer School noted above. The interest group will support the development of a proposal based on the above-noted letter of intent if it is approved. The group would also like the Centre for Health Promotion to establish a Cancer Prevention Research Unit, which would conduct research on the effectiveness of cancer prevention interventions, as well as on the environmental and behavioural determinants of cancer.