Community Outreach and Engagement

社区外展和参与-摘要 在所有州中，俄克拉荷马州的癌症死亡率排名第七，癌症死亡率排名第二。 发病率和死亡率的15个国家目前没有一个国家癌症中心指定的癌症中心。 在俄克拉荷马州的广大农村地区、美洲印第安人（AI）和其他 受一系列相关健康风险和社会经济因素的驱动， 高贫困率，缺乏保险，肥胖，烟草使用，不良的饮食选择等。作为俄克拉荷马州唯一的 作为一个学术性的癌症中心，SCC在领导减少该州癌症负担的努力方面具有独特的地位 通过促进科学发现并将其转化为对患者和公众的直接利益， 集水区，SCC定义为俄克拉荷马州。 这一努力的核心资源是SCC的社区外展和参与（COE）核心， 这是：1）促进对集水区特有的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AI人群，以及癌症健康差异; 2） 改善病人的预后，并通过参与提高集水区的癌症护理水平， 人口，特别是那些在研究中，在临床试验中代表性不足的人口; 3）降低癌症发病率 通过制定、实施和评估卫生政策， 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 并在全州范围内利用SCC活动，以获得最广泛的集水区影响。 在SCC社区外展副主任Mark Doescher（医学博士、MSPH）的指导下， 参与，COE核心在这些社区的直接参与下启动协作研究 受集水区癌症健康差异的影响。特遣队所属装备核心活动与 SCC的癌症预防和控制（CPC），妇科癌症（GC）的研究活动， 临床前转化癌症研究（PTCR）计划，每个计划的目标都集中在解决 癌症负担和癌症健康差距在集水区。协助他的是多萝西 Rhoades，医学博士，公共卫生硕士（基奥瓦部落的注册成员），他是SCC的AI癌症主任 研究倡议。Doescher博士和Rhoades博士与CPC项目密切合作， 烟草研究人员在社区参与癌症研究与部落，农村和其他服务不足 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， 参与GC干预性试验的患者数量。他们支持PTCR计划， 一个信任的环境，促进生物标本的获取，用于人工智能群体的基因组研究。

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.