About the CAP

• Press Releases and News

-The Winter 2006 issue of the Medicine Alumni magazine highlighted aging research at the University of Iowa. The Cancer and Aging Program is featured on pages 8-9, download the pdf file.

-The University of Iowa Center on Aging and the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center have received a five-year grant commitment from the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute on Aging as part of the institutes' joint initiative to accelerate research into the relationship between aging and cancer. Read Full Story

- NIH Press Release: "NIH Funds Eight New Grants Focused on Aging and Cancer"

• Past CAP Events
  
  Previous Events Sponsored or Supported by CAP

• Other National CAP Awards Recipients
  
  Recipients of Cap Awards

• Thematic Areas of the CAP grant


• Biology of aging and cancer (free radical biology)
• Effects of co-morbidity (effects of co-morbidity on clinical cancer outcomes)
• Treatment efficacy and tolerance (chemotherapy pharmacology in older cancer patients)
• Patterns of Care
• Prevention, Risk Assessment and Screening
• Psychosocial Issues and Medical Effects
• Palliative Care, End-of-life Care, Pain Relief
  More information on CAP Thematic Areas
• CAP Mission