Award
National Cancer Institute 4R01CA276266-03
Incorporating residential histories into assessment of cancer risk
Recipient
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Award Amount
$1,126,520.00
Ceiling
$1,126,520.00
Awarded
September 11, 2025
Identifier
4R01CA276266-03
The award funds a project to develop methods for reconstructing life-course residential histories and linking them to environmental exposures to better assess cancer risk in the Southeastern US population, focusing on major cancers and health disparities.
Description
This project aims to improve exposure assessment in cancer epidemiology by integrating residential history data with geospatial environmental exposures, focusing on populations in the Southeastern United States. The project will develop methods to reconstruct life-course residential histories in the US South population and link to area-level environmental exposures to identify cancer risk, particularly for the four most common cancers (breast, lung, colorectal, prostate) in over 84,000 participants across 12 Southern states.