Li Li

Primary care and cancer

Li Li

Primary care and family medicine are at the forefront of our war against cancer. Primary care physicians provide comprehensive care for individual patients and the general population along the whole spectrum of cancer care continuum ranging from risk reduction, screening and early detection to survivorship.

This special issue of Family Medicine and Community Health focuses on the theme of‘Primary Care and Cancer’. The birth of this special issue results from long-term collaboration among primary care physicians, cancer researchers in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health at Case Western Reserve University and the Journal. Original research published in this issue covers a broad range of issues facing by primary care and family physicians in their daily practice, ranging from cancer epidemiology, quality of life, and survivorship. These reports highlight the wide-ranging research at the interface of cancer and primary care by investigators at Case Western Reserve University.

We hope this special issue of the journal will cultivate broad interest among the readers, in particular among primary care and family physicians and investigators, and forge a formidable force to accomplish our mission to conquer cancer.

Fight on.

Guest Editor

Li Li, MD, PhD, is Professor of Family Medicine, Epidemiology,and Biostatistics, Mary Ann Swetland End owed Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, and Director of S wetland Center for Environmental Health at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

He is also an attending physician in family medicine at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. He is an internationally known cancer epidemiologist with research focuses on gene-environment interaction,energy imbalance and colon carcinogenesis, screening and early detection of colon neoplasia, and risk prediction modeling in breast cancer.He is the principal investigator for multiple NIH research grants and has

contributed significantly to a number of large multi-investigator efforts, such as the Case Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (TREC) program and the Case GI Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE). He is also Associate Director for Prevention Research at Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, overseeing population research that cuts across all aspects of translational cancer research, ranging from epidemiology psychosocial and behavioral sciences, genomics, and biomarker discovery and validation to the application of novel discoveries from both wet and dry laboratories to screening and early detection, prevention, and intervention. He is the founding director of the Clinical Translational Science PhD program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Sincerely,

Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Case Western Reserve University,11000 Cedar Avenue, Suite 402,Cleveland, OH 44106-7136,USA

E-mail: lxl62@case.edu

2 June 2017;

Accepted 5 July 2017