2/2 Cherokee Nation/Stephenson Cancer Center Collaborative on Cancer Disparities

描述(由申请人提供)摘要/摘要：切诺基民族和斯蒂芬森癌症中心之间拟议的合作有明确的目标，即通过为致力于推进切诺基民族这项工作的新调查人员和学生提供试点研究、培训和教育的相关计划，建立解决切诺基民族与烟草相关的癌症差异的能力。我们有四个具体目标：1)建立一个基础设施，包括一个联合内部咨询委员会，能够推动切诺基民族和斯蒂芬森癌症中心之间的多种研究、培训和教育工作；2)开展烟草使用和癌症风险方面的试点研究，能够在切罗基民族开展大规模研究项目；3)在这项研究的背景下，为切罗基民族培养下一代癌症研究人员，包括新的研究人员、博士后研究员、研究生和本科生；4)在这些努力的基础上再接再厉，使伙伴关系及其解决与烟草有关的癌症差距的努力实现可持续性。这种伙伴关系提供了一种非常真实的可能性，可以通过社区参与、试点研究和培训学生和新调查人员的广泛计划，为癌症差异研究创造真正的部落能力，这些学生和新调查人员可以开始解决烟草导致的持续的癌症差异问题。与切诺基民族以前成功的努力相比，这是一项重要的进步，因为它将这些努力整合在明确侧重于烟草和癌症差异的情况下。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) Summary/ABSTRACT: The proposed collaborative between the Cherokee Nation and the Stephenson Cancer Center has the explicit goal of creating the capacity to address tobacco-related cancer disparities in the Cherokee Nation through a linked program of pilot research and training and education for new investigators and students committed to advancing this work for the Cherokee Nation. We have four specific aims: 1) to develop an infrastructure, including a joint Internal Advisory Committee, capable of shaping multiple research, training, and education efforts between the Cherokee Nation and the Stephenson Cancer Center; 2) to conduct pilot research in tobacco use and cancer risk capable of seeding large-scale research projects at the Cherokee Nation; 3) to train the next generation of cancer researchers for the Cherokee Nation in the context of this research, including new investigators, postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students; 4) to build upon these efforts in order to achieve sustainability for the partnership and its efforts to address tobacco-related cancer disparities. This partnership offers a very real possibility of creating authentic tribal capacity for cancer disparities research through a broad-based program of community engagement, pilot research, and training for students and new investigators who can begin to address the persistent cancer disparities that result from tobacco. It represents an important advance over previously successful efforts at the Cherokee Nation through the integration of these efforts under a clear focus on tobacco and cancer disparities.