An Initiative to Prevent Childhood Cancer Before it Starts

Imagine knowing whether your child is at risk for developing cancer. There would be the chance to stop the disease before it even starts. Joshua Schiffman, MD, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah, and pediatric oncologist at Primary Children’s Hospital, is part of the first initiative of its kind – the Primary Children’s Hospital Pediatric Cancer Program - that promises to do just that. He explains the program and how it will further a mission of eradicating childhood cancer.