The use of both alcohol and tobacco has independent and synergistic health effects, including links to many different cancers. There is a clear need to better understand the impact of dual use on cancer incidence and outcomes, to improve public education, and to develop oncology clinical practice guidelines for patients who use alcohol and tobacco. This workshop examined the current state of the science and explore strategies to reduce tobacco and alcohol use to lower cancer risk and improve health outcomes.
Planning Committee:
Roy S. Herbst, Yale University (Co-Chair)
Gail Eckhardt, Baylor College of Medicine (Co-Chair)
Gwen Darien, National Patient Advocate Foundation
Scarlett Lin Gomez, University of California, San Francisco
Chanita Hughes-Halbert, University of Southern California
Farhad Islami, American Cancer Society
Roy Jensen, University of Kansas Cancer Center
Elena Martinez, University of California, San Diego
Nigar Nargis, American Cancer Society
Lisa Richardson, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Deidra Roach, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Katrina Trivers, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Speakers:
Jessica Barrington-Trimis, University of Southern California
David Berrigan, National Cancer Institute
Melissa Buffalo, American Indian Cancer Foundation
Ned Calonge, Colorado School of Public Health
Lisa Carter-Bawa, Cancer Prevention Precision Control Institute
Francisco Cartujano-Barrera, University of Rochester Medical Center
Gwen Darien, National Patient Advocate Foundation
Jeffrey Drope, Johns Hopkins University
Raimee Eck, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Sonrisa Solutions
Mark Evers, Markey Cancer Center
Babalola Faseru, University of Kansas Medical Center
Geoffrey Fong, University of Waterloo
Neal Freedman, National Cancer Institute
Jo Freudenheim, University at Buffalo
Ella Greene-Moton, American Public Health Association
Jennifer Hay, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Stephen Hecht, University of Minnesota
Farhad Islami, American Cancer Society
Ayana Jordan, New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Amy Justice, Yale University; Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System
Brian King, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
William Klein, National Cancer Institute
Adam Leventhal, University of Southern California
Pamela Ling, University of California, San Francisco
Nigar Nargis, American Cancer Society
Kolawole Okuyemi, Indiana University
Kurt Ribisl, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health
Harriet Rumgay, International Agency for Research on Cancer
Benjamin Toll, Medical University of South Carolina
Graham Warren, Medical University of South Carolina
J. Lee Westmaas, American Cancer Society
Hang Zhou, Yale School of Medicine
Shu-Hong Zhu, University of California, San Diego