MARKETING CANCER RESEARCH TO LATIN AMERICANS

华盛顿医院中心的华盛顿癌症研究所(WCI)与大华盛顿特区大都会地区为拉丁美洲人服务的五家社区诊所、隆巴迪综合癌症中心(LCC)以及乔治敦大学的商业、医学和护理学院共同组成了拉丁美洲癌症研究联盟(LACRC)。癌症研究中心将与美国癌症学会大西洋中部分会、约翰·霍普金斯大学的区域癌症信息服务办公室、迈阿密大学的西班牙语独联体支持热线和马修斯媒体集团合作，以促进：1)癌症预防和控制意识和行为改变，2)在大华盛顿特区地区快速增长的独特的中南美洲新移民人口中参与癌症临床试验。拉丁美洲癌症研究中心还将促进拉丁美洲社区在新的研究人员发起的癌症预防和控制研究项目中的合作和参与。拉丁美洲癌症预防和预防中心的总体目标是，在拉丁美洲促进健康和预防癌症的社会营销方法与以初级保健诊所为基础的干预措施相结合，加强这些营销方法，并将癌症预防和控制纳入这些极其繁忙的诊所的日常运营中。LACRC联盟建议实现以下目标：1.1建立LACRC基础设施，建立伙伴关系并提高癌症控制意识。1.2为州立大学学生、NCI研究员和临床合作伙伴提供健康促进培训机会。1.3在区域合作研究中心规划和实施合作发展研究项目。1.4协力发展及提交研究资助中心的研究资助申请。联盟成员强大的伙伴关系、社区联系和研究记录将为支持这些活动提供独特的基础设施。这样的举措有可能降低大华盛顿特区大都市区拉丁美洲人的癌症发病率和死亡率。

The Washington Cancer Institute (WCI) of the Washington Hospital Center, in collaboration with five community clinics serving Latin Americans in the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area, the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCC), and the Schools of Business, Medicine and Nursing of Georgetown University, have come together to form the Latin American Cancer Research Coalition (LACRC). The LACRC will work with the Mid- Atlantic Division of the American Cancer Society, the regional NCI Cancer Information Service Office at Johns Hopkins University and the Spanish- Language CIS support line at the University of Miami, and Matthews Media Group to promote: l) cancer prevention and control awareness and behavior change, and 2) participation in cancer clinical trials among the rapidly growing and unique Central and South American recent immigrant population of the greater Washington D.C. region. The LACRC will also foster collaboration and Latin American community participation in new investigator-initiated cancer prevention and control research projects. The overall goal of the LACRC is to pair culturally appropriate social marketing approaches to promote health and prevent cancer among Latin Americans, with primary care clinic-based interventions that reinforce these marketing approaches and integrate cancer prevention and control into the every day operations of these extremely busy clinics. The LACRC coalition proposes to accomplish the following objectives: 1.1 Build the LACRC infrastructure, establish partnerships and promote cancer control awareness. 1.2 Build Health Promotion Training Opportunities for GU Students, NCI Fellows and Clinic Partners. 1.3 Plan and Implement Collaborative Developmental Research Projects in the LACRC. 1.4 Collaboratively Develop and Submit Research Grant Applications from the LACRC. The strong partnerships, community links, and research track record of the coalition members will provide a unique infrastructure to support these activities. Such initiatives have the potential to decrease cancer morbidity and mortality among Latin Americans in the greater Washington DC metropolitan region.