Cancer Prevention - No Quick Fix | Priyanka Gogna | TEDxQueensU

Almost 40% of cancer cases in Canada are due to modifiable environmental and lifestyle risk factors. What kinds of changes do we need to start making today to reduce our future cancer burden? Priyanka Gogna, a PhD candidate at Queen's University discusses her work as part of the ComPARe Study-a national consortium aimed at estimating the current and future burden of cancer attributable to the most important cancer risk factors for Canadians, including air pollution, red meat consumption, smoking, UV radiation, sedentary behaviour, obesity, and viruses. Priyanka Gogna received her MSc. in Epidemiology in 2018, and is currently a PhD candidate in Epidemiology at Queen’s University under the supervision of Dr. Will King.

Priyanka is a cancer epidemiology researcher, and studies the impact of common environmental risk factors on cancer burden at the population level.

She is passionate about knowledge translation and the importance of disseminating cancer prevention research to the general public. She believes science is not finished until it is communicated, and tries to embody this in her everyday research.

[NakulOSRS]

Good speech Priyanka! People need to know the misconceptions about what causes cancer and the current up to date studies on how to keep yourself safe from exposures.

[madhav]

Her simple solu. - peaceful mind and healthy body and living away from the urban areas for the next 30 years.