CONFERENCE ON MINORITY RECRUITMENT & RETENTION IN CANCER

描述：(申请人描述) 维克森林大学综合癌症中心建议 举办一次区域会议，以加强招募少数族裔 癌症临床试验。显著降低癌症发病率和 死亡需要最先进的治疗；而且，癌症可能需要更多的治疗 与任何其他疾病相比，临床试验的结果定义了 最先进的护理。然而，只有不到3%的专利患有癌症 报名参加审判，少数族裔的参与率更低。近期 研究已经确定了参与的各种障碍， 在临床试验中少数族裔的代表性不足。要解决这些问题 障碍，CCCWFU将制定一个为期一天的会议，将于1997年举行 对于临床试验研究人员，注册临床专利的医生 试验和临床试验工作人员增加少数族裔参与 地区性试验。会议将概述以下方面的状况 少数群体参与国家和区域研究；地理上的 区域参与临床试验的概述；重点是成功 针对少数群体的地区性研究；提交给 来自会前焦点小组的研究人员对少数族裔癌症进行了研究 幸存者；关于阻碍参与的障碍的小组讨论； 以及几个分组会议，将提供解决以下问题的机会 具体问题和障碍，如重新思考设计标准；策略 增加少数族裔医生的参与； 在管理保健和保险的限制范围内招聘；方法 设计对文化敏感的材料；并查看宣传和 立法。将鼓励参与者制定具体的策略 超越会议中确定的障碍。演讲者将 代表位于五个州集水区的区域专门知识 由东南癌症控制联盟(SCCC)提供服务：北卡罗来纳州， 南卡罗来纳州、佐治亚州、弗吉尼亚州和田纳西州。 本次会议的区域性质得到了以下方面的支持 北卡罗来纳州综合癌症中心咨询 癌症协调和控制委员会，癌症中央登记处 北卡罗来纳州、东南癌症控制联盟和北方 卡罗莱纳肿瘤学会，卡罗莱纳州癌症信息服务， 北卡罗来纳州医学会和老年人癌症委员会 北州医学会，北卡罗来纳州少数民族健康办公室， 和拟议中的美国癌症协会南大西洋公司 这包括北卡罗来纳州、南卡罗来纳州和佐治亚州。

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Description) The Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University (CCCWFU) proposes to conduct a regional conference to enhance the recruitment of minorities to cancer clinical trials. To significantly reduce cancer morbidity and mortality requires state-of-the-art treatment; and, perhaps more for cancer than for any other disease, the results of clinical trials define state-of-the-art care. Yet, less than 3 percent of patents with cancer enroll in trials, and the participation of minorities is even lower. Recent studies have identified a variety of barriers to participation that result in under-representation of minorities in clinical trials. To address these barriers, the CCCWFU will develop a day-long conference to be held in 1997 for clinical trials researchers, physicians who enroll patents in clinical trials, and clinical trials staff to increase minority participation in regional trials. The conference will feature an overview of the status of minority participation in national and regional research; a geographic overview of regional participation in clinical trials; a focus on successful regional studies targeted to minority populations; a report to the researchers from pre-conference focus groups conducted with minority cancer survivors; a panel discussion of the barriers that inhibit participation; and several break-out sessions that will offer opportunities to address specific issues and barriers, such as rethinking design criteria; strategies for increasing the involvement of physicians with minority populations; recruiting within the limitations of managed care and insurance; ways to design culturally-sensitive materials; and a look at advocacy and legislation. Participants will be encouraged to develop specific strategies to move beyond the barriers identified in the conference. Speakers will represent the regional expertise located in the five-state catchment area served by the Southeast Cancer Control Consortium (SCCC): North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee. The regional nature of this conference is supported by the involvement of the Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the state, the North Carolina Advisory Committee on Cancer Coordination and Control, the Central Cancer Registry of North Carolina, the Southeast Cancer Control Consortium and the North Carolina Oncology Society, the Cancer Information Service of the Carolinas, the cancer committees of the North Carolina Medical Society and the Old North State Medical Society, the North Carolina Office of Minority Health, and the proposed South Atlantic Corporation of the American Cancer Society that includes North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.