INCREASING ACCESS TO CLINICAL AND EDUCATIONAL STUDIES

这项名为“增加临床和教育研究机会”(ACE)的申请寻求对癌症教育和研究网络发展的支持，旨在促进新的癌症预防和控制研究拨款申请的开发，这些申请在文化上适合费城少数群体，并可在服务于少数群体成员的社区初级保健实践中实施。该网络将把癌症研究人员、社区卫生保健领导人、社区护士、社区初级保健实践和合作肿瘤学团体联系起来。这一努力将扩大1996年托马斯·杰斐逊大学(TJU)基梅尔癌症中心(KCC)和费城社区卫生保健领导人之间形成的癌症研究伙伴关系。申请的具体目标是：(1)在费城组织一个癌症教育和研究网络。(2)招募有潜力成为试点研究联合调查员的少数族裔科学家，并开发由调查员发起的拨款申请。(3)通过非裔美国人教会提供癌症预防和控制的教育。(5)提交新的研究资助申请，旨在增加非裔美国人参与癌症预防和控制研究。在ACES项目的第一阶段，将组织一个指导委员会和三个特定疾病部位(即乳腺癌、结直肠癌和前列腺癌)工作组。在该项目的第二阶段，将启动社区癌症教育努力和至少三项试点研究。预计这些研究将评估在居住在西费城和北费城的非裔美国人中鼓励知情地使用癌症预防和控制模式并参与合作小组试验的方法。在第三阶段，我们会根据试验研究的结果，准备和提交新的研究资助申请。

This application titled, Increasing Access to Clinical and Educational Studies (ACES) seeks support for the development of a cancer education and research network developed to facilitate the development of new cancer prevention and control research grant applications that are culturally appropriate to minority populations in Philadelphia and feasible for implementation in community-based primary care practices that serve minority populations members. The network will link cancer researchers, community health care leaders, community-based nurses, community- based primary care practices, and cooperative oncology groups. This effort will expand a cancer research partnership that was formed in 1996 between the Kimmel Cancer Center (KCC) of Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) and Philadelphia community health care leaders. Specific aims of the application are to: (1) Organize a cancer education and research network in Philadelphia. (2) Recruit minority scientists who have the potential to become co- investigators on pilot studies and to develop investigator- initiated grant applications. (3) Provide education about cancer prevention and control through African American churches. (5) Submit new research grant applications that are designed to increase the participation of African Americans in cancer prevention and control research. In Phase 1 of the ACES Project, a steering committee and three disease site-specific (i.e., breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer) working groups will be organized. During Phase 2 of the project, community cancer education efforts and at least three pilot studies will be initiated. It is anticipated that these studies will assess methods for encouraging the informed use of cancer prevention and control modalities and participation in cooperative group trials among African Americans who reside in West Philadelphia and North Philadelphia. In Phase 3, we will prepare and submit new research grant applications based on results from the pilot studies.