Center for Energy Balance in Cancer Prevention and Survivorship
The Center for Energy Balance in Cancer Prevention and Survivorship was founded to help bridge the gaps in knowledge surrounding the relationships between physical activity, nutrition, obesity, and cancer. Advancements in the energy balance research field will be used to optimize interventions to modify unhealthy behaviors, decrease cancer risk and improve cancer outcomes and deliver innovative practice-level changes to the clinical realm. By fostering a collaborative, trans-disciplinary environment, our research will contribute to institutional prestige by providing state-of-the-science erudition in:
- prevention and survivorship–related interventions;
- how key energy balance concepts affect cancer biomarkers; and
- the biological and psychosocial mechanisms behind weight, eating behavior, and physical activity.
Energy Balance in the News
Dr. Karen Basen-Engquist in CBS News.
How exercise can help you ward off cancer
Exercise is key to better health in cancer survivors
The Center for Energy Balance was recently spotlighted in Newswise, BioNews Texas and Cancerwise Blog!
Read the Newswise article - From Prevention to Survivorship: The Obesity-Cancer Challenge
Read the Cancerwise Blog - Obesity and Cancer Prevention: What You Should Know
Read the Cancerwise Blog - Exercise for Cancer Survivors: A Great Way to Boost Your Health
State of the Science
News and updates in energy balance research
- A High-Fat Diet Activates Oncogenic Kras and COX2 to Induce Development of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma in Mice
- Women's perceptions about the importance of physical activity and a healthy diet in preventing cancer
- Eating breakfast is connected with higher physical activity & lower levels of adiposity
- Only 1 in 5 Americans Meet Physical Activity Recommendations
- Fast food makes up 11% of calories in US Diet
- Weight-loss surgery won't cut obesity-related medical costs
- Confidence builds better exercise habits for cancer survivors
- Obesity, Physical Inactivity linked with risk for certain molecular subtype of colorectal cancer
- Scientists identify gene that causes obesity in mice
- Every step you take makes you healthier
- The science of obesity: what do we really know about what makes us fat? An essay by Gary Taubes
- Evaluating Bioactive Food Components in Obesity and Cancer Prevention
Upcoming Events
October 10, 2013
Cancer Prevention and Control Grand Rounds
Technology based approaches to obesity prevention and treatment
Dr. Deborah Tate
8:00-9:00 a.m.
CPB 8 Rm 7 & Rm 8 Learn more
October 11, 2013
Energy Balance Journal Club
Animal Models and Physical Activity
Dr. Rosie Schmandt
12:00-1:00 p.m.
FCT 3.4166 Rm 2 & Rm 7 Add Event to Calendar
October 15, 2013
Integrative Medicine Program Lecture Series
Why Do We Need to Invest in Dietary Chemoprevention?
Dr. Robert Chapkin
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Hickey Auditorium (R11.1400) Learn more
February 12, 2014
Center for Energy Balance in Cancer Prevention & Survivorship Retreat
CPB 8
7:30a.m.-3p.m. Learn more