Comprehensive NAU/AZCC Cancer Research Partnership

NAU/AZCC 癌症研究综合合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 7499141
• 负责人: LOUISE M CANFIELD
• 金额: $ 67.63万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-06-20 至 2009-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7499141
• 关键词: Address; American Indians; Arizona; Basic Science; Cancer Center; Chemicals; Clinical Trials; Collaborations; Communities; Community Outreach; Data; Development; Education and Outreach; Effectiveness; Face; Faculty; Future; Health Personnel; Healthcare; Industry; Institution; Link; Malignant Neoplasms; Mining; NCI Center for Cancer Research; Native Americans; Oncologist; Patients; Provider; Rate; Recording of previous events; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Activity; Research Personnel; Reservations; Students; Training; Training Programs; Universities; anticancer research; cancer diagnosis; cancer education; career; improved; interest; mortality; programs

In the face of improved US cancer survival, cancer mortality in American Indians is increasing. Cultural differences make addressing this disparity challenging. The paucity of American Indian health care providers, almost none oncologists, compounds the situation. American Indian patients, unable to effectively communicate with providers, become isolated from cancer diagnosis and treatment and are rarely recruited into clinical trials. While the need for American Indian oncologists is therefore urgent, few American Indians enter health care professions. While most universities have dismal recruitment and retention rates, Northern Arizona University(NAU) has a distinguished history of graduating Native American students. At NAU, however, there is no cancer research core to provide cancer education to American Indian students and communities. In this partnership, we will link research programs of the Arizona Cancer Center (AZCC) with American Indian student training programs and environmental research at NAU. While informal faculty interaction exists, there is currently no comprehensive plan to enhance cancer research at NAU or to coordinate American Indian student recruitment and retention at NAU and UofA/AZCC. The objectives of this proposal are to (1) initiate robust cancer research at NAU to enhance faculty career development and train students in cancer research fundamentals; (2) create stable, long-term cancer research, education, and outreach collaboration; and (3) improve institutional effectiveness in impacting the disparity in cancer in American Indians of the Southwest. Research programs will focus on the carcinogenic effects of chemicals associated with the mining industry on reservations. American Indian students have a vital interest in the data. Thus this vested interest greatly enhances our potential to recruit and retain these students and to provide future American Indian cancer researchers and oncologists. The program is guided by administrative, planning and developmental cores at each institution. Research activities include basic science, cancer education, and community outreach components.

面对美国癌症存活率的提高，美国印第安人的癌症死亡率正在上升。文化差异使解决这一差距具有挑战性。美国印第安人医疗保健提供者的匮乏，几乎没有肿瘤学家，这加剧了这种情况。美国印第安人患者无法有效地与提供者沟通，与癌症诊断和治疗隔绝，很少被招募到临床试验中。因此，尽管对美国印第安人肿瘤学家的需求非常迫切，但很少有美国印第安人进入医疗保健行业。虽然大多数大学的招生率和保留率都很低，但北亚利桑那大学(NAU)在印第安人学生毕业方面有着杰出的历史。然而，在北卡罗来纳大学，没有癌症研究核心向美国印第安人学生和社区提供癌症教育。在这一合作关系中，我们将把亚利桑那州癌症中心(AZCC)的研究项目与NAU的美国印第安人学生培训项目和环境研究联系起来。虽然存在非正式的教师互动，但目前还没有全面的计划来加强NAU的癌症研究，或者协调NAU和UofA/AZCC的美国印第安人学生的招生和留住。这项建议的目标是(1)在北卡罗来纳大学启动强有力的癌症研究，以促进教师职业发展并培训学生癌症研究基础知识；(2)创建稳定、长期的癌症研究、教育和外展合作；以及(3)提高机构效率，以影响西南美洲印第安人的癌症差异。研究项目将侧重于与采矿业相关的化学品对保留地的致癌影响。美国印第安人学生对这些数据有着至关重要的兴趣。因此，这种既得利益极大地增强了我们招收和留住这些学生的潜力，并为未来的美国印第安人癌症研究人员和肿瘤学家提供了机会。该计划由每个机构的行政、规划和发展核心指导。研究活动包括基础科学、癌症教育和社区推广部分。