Team Chicago

The Comprehensive Cancer Risk and Prevention Center at the University of Chicago was the first in Illinois to provide comprehensive evaluation, prevention and risk reduction for people at high risk for gastrointestinal malignancies. Our center serves the South Side of Chicago which is home for large groups of underserved and underrepresented ethnic and racial minorities, and so, we have made it our goal to study and decrease health disparities in gastrointestinal cancers in general and in cancer predisposition syndromes in particular. Our center is also on the executive committee of the “Lynch syndrome INtegrative Epidemiology And GEnetics” (LINEAGE) Consortium, a collaborative group which provides intellectual and infrastructure support to facilitate development of research questions, collection of standardized data and biospecimens of Lynch syndrome patients.