Georgia CaRes

描述（由申请人提供）：格鲁吉亚摄政大学（GRU）自2004年以来一直是格鲁吉亚唯一的NCI MB-CCOP的所在地。GRU及其附属网站大学癌症与血液中心（UCBC）已经招募了近800名患者进行NCI临床试验：39%的患者是非裔美国人（AA）和其他少数民族，治疗试验（48%）和预防和控制试验（52%）之间的应计分配。基于这一成功的记录，GRU癌症中心（GRUCC）和UCBC正在与莫尔豪斯医学院（MSM）和乔治亚南部大学公共卫生学院（JPHCOPH）合作，成为乔治亚州NCORP少数族裔/服务不足社区网站。维持和发展一个专注于格鲁吉亚少数民族和服务不足人口的非政府组织是非常必要的。乔治亚州的癌症差异是全国最严重的，尤其是非洲裔美国人（AA）和高加索人（CA）之间，以及农村和城市人口之间。在一些最常见的癌症中，这种差异非常明显。乔治亚州的AA男性不仅在全国AA男性中前列腺癌发病率最高，而且他们被诊断出患有这种疾病的可能性几乎是乔治亚州CA男性的两倍，死于前列腺癌的可能性是CA男性的三倍。在乔治亚州，AA女性死于乳腺癌的几率比CA女性高25%，AA女性死于结直肠癌的几率比CA女性高45%。乔治亚州拟议的NCORP M/U站点的具体目标是：1)在乔治亚州实施一个满足或超过所有NCI要求的NCORP M/U站点；2)参与设计、实施和翻译国家非营利组织研究议程，特别是与少数民族和服务不足人群有关的研究；3)扩大患者和提供者对癌症预防、控制、成像、治疗和筛查/监测后临床试验和癌症护理提供研究的准入和登记/参与，特别是对城市和农村地区的少数民族和服务不足人群。主要子目标包括实施领导力发展计划，以培养下一代NCORP调查员和领导者，并在NCORP研究议程的各个方面与关键利益相关者和社区合作伙伴进行接触。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Georgia Regents University (GRU) has been home to Georgia's only NCI MB-CCOP since 2004. With its affiliate site, University Cancer & Blood Center (UCBC), GRU has enrolled nearly 800 patients to NCI clinical trials: 39% of them African American (AA) and other minorities, with accrual split between treatment trials (48%) and prevention and control trials (52%). Building on this successful track record, GRU Cancer Center (GRUCC) and UCBC are joining forces with Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) and the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH) at Georgia Southern University to become the NCORP Minority/Underserved Community Site for Georgia. The need to sustain and grow an NCORP that focuses on minority and underserved populations in Georgia is great. Georgia has some of the nation's worst cancer disparities, particularity between African Americans (AA) and Caucasians (CA) and between rural and urban populations. The disparities are glaring for some of the most common cancers. Not only do AA men in Georgia have the highest rate of prostate cancer among AA men in the country, they are almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with the disease as CA men in Georgia and three times as likely to die from it. In Georgia, AA women die of breast cancer 25% more often than CA women, and AA die of colorectal cancer 45% more than CA. The Specific Aims of the proposed NCORP M/U site for Georgia are to: 1) Implement a NCORP M/U Site for Georgia that meets or exceeds all NCI requirements; 2) Contribute to the design, conduct and translation of the national NCORP research agenda, particularity studies that pertain to minority and underserved populations; and 3) expand patient and provider access to-and enrollment/participation in-cancer prevention, control, imaging, treatment and screening/post-surveillance clinical trials and cancer care delivery research throughout Georgia, particularly for minority and underserved populations in urban and rural settings. Key sub-aims include the implementation of a leadership development program to cultivate the next generation of NCORP investigators and leaders and engagement to key stakeholders and community partners in all aspects of the NCORP research agenda.