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The Chemo/Dietary Prevention (CDP) Study Section reviews applications that address nutrition, dietary and chemopreventive factors and their use in intervention for modulation of cancer risk, and inhibition of cancer progression.  Emphasis is on basic mechanistic studies, preclinical and clinical (phase-I and phase-II) studies as well as discovery, evaluation, and validation of dietary factors. Specific areas covered by CDP:

• Discovery and evaluation of diets as well as individual dietary factors, chemopreventive agents, and targets for the prevention and modulation of cancer; design, development and synthesis of preventive agents
• Studies on mechanisms of nutritional prevention at the biochemical, molecular and cellular levels;  effects of dietary factors on hormonal carcinogenesis, chemical carcinogenesis, differentiation/transdifferentiation, apoptosis, and cell signaling pathways; the role of diet in oxidative stress, antioxidant defense mechanisms, DNA methylation, histone acetylation, and gene expression
• Development and validation of biomarkers important in prevention, including markers of cancer risk and progression
• Design and development of approaches to the prevention of tumors via other factors, such as exercise, diet restriction, or vaccines
• Preclinical  prevention studies including in vitro and in vivo evaluation of efficacy and safety as well as in vitro and in vivo pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic studies of chemopreventive agents;  Phase I and Phase-II clinical trials of chemopreventive agents

The study sections with most closely relate areas of similar science listed in rank order are:

Cancer Etiology Study Section [CE] 
Tumor Cell Biology Study Section [TCB] 
Cancer Biomarkers Study Section [CBSS] 
Basic Mechanisms of Cancer Therapeutics Study Section [BMCT] 
Integrative Nutrition and Metabolic Processes Study Section [INMP]