Diagnosis and therapy

• Screening technologies and diagnostic markers.
• Estimation of prognosis and identification of individuals at increased risk of cancer.
• Factors associated with stage of diagnosis and clinical outcome.
• All types of therapy and all phases of development and testing.

Epidemiology and prevention

• Population-based research aimed at understanding causation, incidence, trends, and risk (such as environmental and genetic risk).
• Research on prevention (for example, lifestyle and nutritional factors), including individual and community interventions.

Information, patients and the public

• Public policy issues, ethics and confidentiality.
• Education and communication about cancer.
• Involvement of patients and public in deciding research priorities.
• Patient-led research.

Survivorship and end-of-life care

• Living with and beyond cancer: physical, psychological and social impacts and their management.
• Research into care at the end of life.
• Health services and policy research.

The cancer cell and model systems

• Molecular and cellular mechanisms of oncogenesis and tumour suppression.
• The tumour microenvironment.
• Cell biology relevant to cancer.

Tumour specific research

• Tumour specific research, including basic, translational, and clinical approaches.
• Research applied to specific patient groups, such as paediatric patients, and elderly with co-morbidities.