Cancer control science is defined as basic and applied research in the behavioral, social, and population sciences to create or enhance interventions that, independently or in combination with biomedical approaches reduce cancer risk, incidence, morbidity, and mortality, and improve quality of life. DCCPS has several broad areas of interest: development and validation of methods, technologies, and tools in surveillance, statistics, epidemiology, health care delivery, and the behavioral sciences, identification of modifiable risk factors or host susceptibility factors associated with cancer etiology, cancer prevention, and treatment outcomes, and clinical and translational science to reduce risk, incidence, and death from cancer, as well as enhance the quality of life for cancer survivors.; DCCPS also has an interest in cross-cutting themes, health disparities and health equity , implementation science , and cancer survivorship .