Community Outreach and Engagement

摘要-社区外展和参与 Lurie癌症中心(LCC)的核心使命是减少所有人群的癌症负担， 特别关注和强调直接集水区。LCC定义其集水区(LCC-CA) 位于伊利诺伊州(IL)东北部的九(9)个县构成了芝加哥大都市区。这 是一个人口稠密的地区，人口860万，占伊利诺伊州人口的三分之二以上， 大约90%的LCC患者来自。 LCC与国家机构、社区和当地合作伙伴密切合作，以确定卫生挑战和 癌症护理的障碍，解决全国最大的癌症差距，并强调 对#年发病率和/或死亡率较高的癌症进行基础、人口、临床和转化研究 LCC-CA。LCC采用以社区为中心的方法来参与和推广活动 并促进和支持广泛的研究组合，这些研究组合 由我们集水区癌症负担的关键需求和问题驱动。这项研究推动了科学 从基础科学到临床试验的翻译研究领域的发现，最高可达 实施和社区参与的科学，旨在最大限度地减少癌症发病率、死亡率和 差距。同时，地方、州和国家政策制定者参与宣传和政策。 开发、修改和实施。这种全面的LCC-CA方法直接解决了 癌症健康不平等在我们集水区的人群中已经存在了几十年，并导致了 多年来，特别是在当前的筹资期间，取得了重大进展。展望未来，LCC将 继续寻求支持服务不足社区的声音，提供量身定做的癌症教育和 外展，增加获得持续高质量的癌症护理的机会，并制定假设和 研究方法以我们流域面临最高癌症负担的人群为目标。

ABSTRACT-COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT A core mission of the Lurie Cancer Center (LCC) is to reduce the burden of cancer across all populations, with special focus and emphasis on the immediate catchment area. The LCC defines its catchment area (LCC-CA) as the nine (9) counties located in northeastern Illinois (IL) that constitute the metropolitan Chicago area. This is a dense area of 8.6 million people, accounting for more than two-thirds of the Illinois population, and where ~90% of the LCC patient population hails from. The LCC works closely with state agencies, communities and local partners to define health challenges and barriers to cancer care, address cancer disparities that are among the highest in the nation and emphasize basic, population, clinical and translational research for cancers that exhibit higher incidence and/or mortality in the LCC-CA. The LCC employs a community-focused approach to engagement and outreach activities with key stakeholders across the catchment area and catalyzes and supports a broad portfolio of research that is driven by key needs and issues specific to our catchment area’s cancer burden. This research drives scientific discoveries across the translational research spectrum from basic science to clinical trials, up to implementation and community-engaged science, aiming to minimize cancer incidence, mortality and disparities. In parallel, the LCC engages local, state and national policy makers in advocacy and policy development, modification and implementation. This comprehensive LCC-CA approach directly addresses the cancer health inequities that have existed in populations in our catchment area for decades and has resulted in significant strides over the years, and especially within the current funding period. Going forward, the LCC will continue to seek to champion the voices of underserved communities, provide tailored cancer education and outreach, increase access to cancer care that is consistently high quality, and develop hypotheses and research approaches that target populations facing the highest cancer burden in our catchment.