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

描述（由申请人提供）总结/摘要：拟议的切罗基民族和斯蒂芬森癌症中心之间的合作有一个明确的目标，即通过一个试点研究和培训以及对致力于推动切罗基民族这项工作的新研究人员和学生的教育的联系计划，创造解决切罗基民族与烟草有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，能够在切罗基民族和斯蒂芬森癌症中心之间形成多项研究、培训和教育工作; 2）在烟草使用和癌症风险方面进行试点研究，能够在切罗基民族开展大规模研究项目; 3）在本研究的背景下为切罗基民族培训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，实现伙伴关系的可持续性，并努力解决与烟草有关的癌症差异。这种伙伴关系提供了一个非常真实的可能性，通过社区参与，试点研究，并为学生和新的研究人员谁可以开始，以解决持久的癌症差异，导致烟草培训广泛的计划，创造真正的部落能力的癌症差异研究。它代表了一个重要的进步，以前成功的努力，在切罗基国家通过整合这些努力下，明确重点是烟草和癌症的差距。

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.