Community Outreach and Engagement

社区外展和参与-摘要 在所有州中，俄克拉荷马州的总癌症死亡率排名第七，在癌症方面排名第二 目前没有NCI指定的癌症中心的15个州的发病率和死亡率。 俄克拉荷马州大的农村、美国印第安人(AI)和其他人的癌症健康状况存在显著差异 在许多相关健康风险和社会经济因素的推动下，服务不足的少数群体，包括 高贫困率，缺乏保险，肥胖，吸烟，糟糕的饮食选择等，作为俄克拉荷马州唯一的 作为学术癌症中心，SCC在领导减少该州癌症负担方面具有独特的地位 通过促进科学发现并将其转化为患者和公众的直接利益， 集水区，SCC将其定义为俄克拉荷马州。 这项工作的中心资源是SCC的社区外联和参与(COE)核心，其目标是 它们是：1)促进对集水区特定癌症相关问题的研究，重点是 独特或不寻常的癌症发病率、服务不足的农村和人工智能人群以及癌症健康差异；2) 通过参与改善患者的预后，提高集水区癌症护理的标准 人群，特别是那些在研究中代表不足的人群，在临床试验中；3)降低癌症发病率 通过制定、执行和评估健康状况，提高集水区的卫生和死亡率 政策；以及4)与具有一致使命和目标的社区实体合作，以扩大覆盖范围 并利用全州范围内的SCC活动，实现最广泛的集水区影响。 在MSPH医学博士Mark Doescher的指导下，SCC的社区外展和 参与，COE核心发起与这些社区的直接参与的协作研究 受集水区癌症健康差距的影响。COE核心活动与 SCC癌症预防与控制(CPC)、妇科癌症(GC)和 临床前转化性癌症研究(PTCR)计划，每个计划的目标都集中在解决 集水区的癌症负担和癌症健康差距。多萝西帮助他完成了这项工作 罗兹，医学博士，公共卫生硕士(Kiowa部落的登记成员)，SCC人工智能癌症主任 研究计划。Doescher博士和Rhodes博士与CPC计划健康差距和 烟草研究人员与部落、农村和其他未得到充分服务的社区参与癌症研究 人口。他们与GC计划成员合作，让部落和农村卫生系统参与进来，以增加 参加GC介入试验的患者数量。他们通过以下方式支持PTCR计划 一个信任的环境，促进在人工智能群体中进行基因组研究的生物样本获取。

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT – ABSTRACT Among all states Oklahoma has the 7th highest overall cancer mortality rate, and it ranks 2nd in cancer incidence and mortality rates among the 15 states currently without an NCI-designated cancer center. Significant cancer health disparities exist for Oklahoma's large rural, American Indian (AI) and other underserved minority populations, driven by a host of related health risk and socioeconomic factors, including high rates of poverty, lack of insurance, obesity, tobacco use, poor dietary choices, etc. As Oklahoma's only academic cancer center, the SCC is uniquely positioned to lead efforts to decrease the state's cancer burden through facilitating scientific discovery and its translation into direct benefit to patients and the general public in the catchment area, which the SCC defines as the State of Oklahoma. A central resource in this effort is the SCC's Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) Core, the goals of which are: 1) to promote research on cancer-relevant issues specific to the catchment area, with emphasis on unique or unusual cancer incidence, the underserved rural and AI populations, and cancer health disparities; 2) to improve patient outcomes and raise the standard of cancer care in the catchment area through engaging populations, especially those underrepresented in research, in clinical trials; 3) to decrease cancer incidence and mortality rates in the catchment area through the development, implementation and evaluation of health policy; and 4) to partner with community-based entities with aligned missions and goals to extend the reach and leverage of SCC activities throughout the state for the widest catchment area impact. Under the direction of Mark Doescher, MD, MSPH, the SCC's Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement, the COE Core initiates collaborative research with the direct involvement of those communities affected by cancer health disparities in the catchment area. COE Core activities are closely linked with the research activities of the SCC's Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC), Gynecologic Cancers (GC) and Preclinical Translational Cancer Research (PTCR) programs, each of which has aims focused on addressing the cancer burden and cancer health disparities in the catchment area. Assisting him in this effort is Dorothy Rhoades, MD, MPH (an enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe), who is the SCC's Director of AI Cancer Research Initiatives. Drs. Doescher and Rhoades collaborate closely with CPC program health disparities and tobacco researchers on community-engaged cancer research with tribal, rural and other underserved populations. They work with GC program members to engage tribal and rural health systems to increase the number of patients who participate in GC interventional trials. They support the PTCR program by establishing an environment of trust, facilitating biospecimen acquisition for genomic research in the AI population.