Research & Outreach
Research & Outreach Footprint
The Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center conducts research and outreach activities that align with community needs. These activities include cutting-edge clinical research studies that look at new ways to understand, prevent, detect, or treat cancer. Outreach activities include tailored community events designed to provide education about cancer prevention, screening, and early diagnosis. Research and outreach activities take place in the four-county Sylvester Catchment Area (Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe Counties), as well as throughout the state of Florida and beyond.
Maps available on desktop
Interested in comparing cancer burden against behavorial and environmental factors?
A third of most common cancers are due to lifestyle. Compare indicators such as incidence rate, percent late stage and mortality rate to risk and protective factors including tobacco use, obesity, and UV exposure on the Cancer Data page.
2,000+ miles
traveled by our Game Changer Vehicle
867 events
held for education and screening in 2017
11,000+
people served by cancer prevention efforts in 2017