Reducing Breast Cancer Recurrence Risk in Black Women

描述（由申请人提供）：候选人：Melinda Stolley，博士 是一位临床心理学家，她希望将自己的职业生涯转向癌症预防和控制。 她目前的工作重点是生活方式干预，这将降低癌症复发风险，提高少数癌症幸存者的生活质量。 拟议的奖项将使她能够获得必要的教育，在癌症生物学/流行病学，营养/饮食评估和措施的发展，以及进一步的监督和经验，客观的身体活动测量，饮食评估和干预措施，并制定文化上适当的干预少数民族人口。 结合这些机会将支持她作为一个独立的调查员的发展。 环境：主要申办者是Marian Fitzgiant博士，临床心理学家，西北大学Lurie癌症中心的成员，专门研究少数民族人群的行为风险降低干预。 共同发起人是苏珊·加普斯图尔博士，预防医学系的癌症流行病学家大卫西莉亚博士，一位生活质量测量专家，和Elaine Prewitt，D.Sc. R.D. 洛约拉医学中心的研究人员，他们将提供饮食评估和干预措施发展方面的指导。 这些赞助商将指导Stolley博士的进展，并支持癌症流行病学，行为研究，饮食评估和干预以及生活质量方面的教育机会。 Lurie癌症中心和精神病学和行为科学系完全致力于确保她的研究工作取得成功所需的时间和资源。 调研：拟议的研究是一项随机对照试点研究，将探讨专门为黑人乳腺癌幸存者设计的综合减肥/饮食和体力活动干预的可行性和有效性。 目标包括体重减轻7%，减少膳食脂肪摄入，增加水果和蔬菜消费，增加体育活动，提高生活质量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Candidate: Melinda Stolley, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist seeking to redirect her career to cancer prevention and control. Her current work focuses on lifestyle interventions that will reduce cancer recurrence risk and increase quality of life in minority cancer survivors. The proposed award will enable her to gain necessary education in cancer biology/epidemiology, nutrition/dietary assessment and measure development, as well as further supervision and experience in objective physical activity measurement, dietary assessment and interventions and developing culturally appropriate interventions for minority populations. In combination these opportunities will support her development as an independent investigator. Environment: The primary sponsor is Marian Fitzgibbon, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and member of Northwestern University's Lurie Cancer Center who specializes in behavioral risk reduction interventions for minority populations. The co-sponsors are Susan Gapstur, Ph.D., a cancer epidemiologist with the Department of Preventive Medicine, David Celia, Ph.D., an expert in quality of life measurement, and Elaine Prewitt, D.Sc. R.D. of Loyola Medical Center, who will provide guidance in dietary assessment and the development of the intervention. These sponsors will guide Dr. Stolley's progress and support educational opportunities in cancer epidemiology, behavioral research, dietary assessment and intervention, and quality of life. The Lurie Cancer Center and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences are fully committed to the time and resources required to assure success in her research endeavors. Research: The proposed study is a randomized control pilot study that will explore the feasibility and estimate the effectiveness of an integrated weight loss/diet and physical activity intervention designed specifically for Black breast cancer survivors. Aims include a 7% reduction in weight, a reduction in dietary fat intake, an increase in fruit and vegetable consumption, an increase in physical activity, and improved quality of life.