The mission of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Program is to pursue a comprehensive strategy to eliminate death due to digestive tract cancers, through risk assessment, screening, prevention and treatment. Digestive tract cancers include cancers of the esophagus, stomach and pancreas, along with hepatobiliary and colorectal cancers.
Program Leaders
GI SPORE
The Arizona Cancer Center is one of only five institutions nationwide to receive a GI SPORE; the others include Harvard, Johns Hopkins, the University of North Carolina, and Vanderbilt University. Originally funded in 2002, the GI SPORE was renewed in 2007 for another five years and funded at $12 million. Eugene W. Gerner, Ph.D, is the SPORE PI and the director of the Arizona Cancer Center’s Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancer Program.
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