As incoming President of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), I am delighted that the AACR publishes the journal Cancer Prevention Research and that this journal is meeting with great success, because I believe the AACR should continue to increase its efforts in the arena of cancer prevention. The past few decades in particular have seen breathtaking advances in the understanding of the biological underpinnings of cancer: how it begins, progresses, and ultimately can kill. Although huge effort has rightly gone into understanding and treating the later stages of cancer, producing advances that often turn cancer from a death sentence into a manageable chronic disease, still, too often such therapeutic approaches ultimately can do little to help the patient. Simply put, once the cancer horse is out of the stable, treatment comes too late.

What does the term “cancer prevention” encompass? In the popular press, cancer prevention often means...

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