SOUTHEAST CANCER CONTROL COSORTIUM, INC

东南癌症控制协会有限公司

• 批准号: 6773157
• 负责人: James Norman Atkins
• 金额: $ 189.85万
• 依托单位: SOUTHEAST CLINICAL ONCOL RES CONSORTIUM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-07-01 至 2005-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6773157
• 关键词: African American; behavioral /social science research tag; breast neoplasms; cancer information system; cancer prevention; cancer registry /resource; cancer risk; clinical research; clinical trials; community health services; cooperative study; health care quality; health care service availability; health services research tag; human subject; human therapy evaluation; low socioeconomic status; medically underserved population; neoplasm /cancer education; neoplasm /cancer therapy; oncology nursing; patient /disease registry; rural area

The Southeast Cancer Control Consortium, Inc., (SCCC) is a Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP) funded for the past 12 years by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The SCCC is a consortium of 15 communities and 16 institutions in a five-state area of the southeast United States. The SCCC's long term objective is to bring state of the art clinical trials and prevention programs for cancer to an arena of small community institutions, to increase access to NCI approved cancer programs. The catchment of the referral communities is estimated at 8.5 million, with demographics reflecting a low population density, limited socioeconomic and educational development, and an African American to white population approximately twice the national average. This provides an opportunity to increase minority access to research studies. There are 104 physicians (medical oncologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, and urologists) participating in the SCCC. Each institution has a physician designated as the "Community Leader," responsible for locally coordinating participation in the SCCC program. Each Community Leader has a support team of personnel [oncology nurses and clinical research associates (CRAs)] who are trained, by the SCCC Operations Office staff, in proper procedures for compliance to federal and research base regulations. The community support teams' efforts are coordinated and monitored by the Community Leaders' counterpart, an oncology nurse or CRA, who is the local "Study Coordinator." The SCCC Operations Office coordinates the consortium's activities by providing a telephone and e-mail information service line for members' questions, monitoring Institutional Review Board (IRB) approvals, facilitating protocol participation via weekly mailings, conducting on-site visits, providing data management training and continuing education programs, preparing grant applications and reports, and coordinating research base audits. The SCCC Operations Office provides the communities with research studies, for both cancer treatment and prevention, from five national cooperative group research bases approved by NCI. Plans are in progress for adding a sixth research base. Each community then has these studies reviewed by their local IRB, all of which are approved by the Office for Protection from Research Risks (OPRR). The Community Leaders and Study Coordinators then educate local members and facilitate implementation of these studies within the community. Through the expansive consortium network, we are confident that our program will significantly improve the quality of and access to NCI approved state of the art cancer care and prevention studies in the community setting. We will be able to reduce the morbidity and mortality of cancer by overcoming ethnic, minority, and socioeconomic barriers.

东南癌症控制联盟（SCCC）是一个社区临床肿瘤学项目（CCOP），由美国国家癌症研究所（NCI）资助了12年。SCCC是由美国东南部五州地区的15个社区和16个机构组成的联盟。SCCC的长期目标是将最先进的癌症临床试验和预防项目带到小型社区机构的舞台上，以增加获得NCI批准的癌症项目的机会。转诊社区的集水区估计有850万，人口密度低，社会经济和教育发展有限，非洲裔美国人与白人的比例约为全国平均水平的两倍。这为增加少数民族获得研究的机会提供了机会。有104名医生（内科肿瘤学家、外科医生、放射肿瘤学家和泌尿科医生）参加SCCC。每个机构都有一名被指定为“社区领袖”的医生，负责在当地协调参与SCCC项目。每个社区领导都有一个支持人员团队（肿瘤护士和临床研究助理），他们由SCCC运营办公室的工作人员培训，符合联邦和研究基地规定的适当程序。社区支持小组的工作由社区领导的对应人员，即当地的“研究协调员”肿瘤科护士或CRA进行协调和监督。SCCC运营办公室协调联盟的活动，为成员提供电话和电子邮件信息服务热线，监督机构审查委员会（IRB）的批准，通过每周邮件促进协议参与，进行现场访问，提供数据管理培训和继续教育计划，准备拨款申请和报告，协调研究基地审计。SCCC运营办公室为社区提供癌症治疗和预防的研究，这些研究来自NCI批准的五个国家合作小组研究基地。目前正在计划增加第六个研究基地。然后，每个社区由当地的IRB审查这些研究，所有这些研究都得到了研究风险保护办公室（OPRR）的批准。然后，社区领导人和研究协调员对当地成员进行教育，并促进这些研究在社区内的实施。通过广泛的联盟网络，我们有信心我们的项目将显著提高社区环境中NCI批准的最先进的癌症护理和预防研究的质量和可及性。通过克服种族、少数民族和社会经济障碍，我们将能够降低癌症的发病率和死亡率。