Future Directions in Caner Prevention & Control: Workforce Implications for Train

描述（由申请人提供）：最近的劳动力报告预测了各种医疗亚专业的短缺，包括肿瘤学。卫生保健工作人员多样化的需求加剧了人力资源问题，这与癌症尤其相关，因为人们普遍认识到，癌症健康结果存在差异，因此，将预防发现转化为对这种差异产生积极影响的干预措施至关重要。值得注意的是，没有一份劳动力报告考虑到癌症预防活动对未来癌症负担的影响，也没有将重点放在癌症预防方面的劳动力需求上。癌症预防在与癌症的斗争中起着重要的作用。事实上，自美国开始进行癌症监测以来，发病率和死亡率首次在同一年下降。这部分是由于治疗和预防方面的重大进展。然而，在我们必须继续改进癌症治疗方法的同时，我们必须加倍努力，改进和扩大预防活动，并在癌症预防方面创造新的方法，以减轻癌症对我们社会的负担，包括预计到2020年肿瘤医学人员短缺的影响。因此，在现在和将来，为了减轻癌症对公众健康的负担，需要一项协调一致的计划，以确保继续招聘和培养一支强大和多样化的癌症预防工作队伍。到目前为止，由于没有其他公共努力试图解决癌症预防中的劳动力问题，因此研讨会的目的是激发癌症预防中大量知识渊博的利益相关者进行有组织的讨论，收集有关癌症预防劳动力的数据，并形成预防短缺和加强该领域的建议。为期两天的研讨会将在休斯顿德克萨斯医学中心的中心——德克萨斯大学安德森癌症中心举行，该中心是美国最大的癌症预防研究和实践中心。本次会议将利用2009年美国癌症教育协会年会的优势，将癌症预防和癌症预防教育、培训、研究、临床实践和政策领域的专家和其他利益相关者聚集在一起，讨论和分析癌症预防工作人员的多个方面。2010年，一个后续会议将与一个即将命名的癌症预防组织的年度会议一起举行，以介绍2009年研讨会的工作成果。所产生的工作将在手稿中进行总结，并在《癌症教育杂志》的增刊中发表，同时对癌症预防成分提出建议，这些建议可以帮助我们预测癌症预防工作人员未来的问题，并制定避免这些问题的策略。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Recent workforce reports have predicted shortages in a variety of medical subspecialties, including oncology. Workforce problems are compounded by the need for diversity in the health care workforce, which is particularly relevant to cancer as widely recognized disparities exist in cancer health outcomes and the need to translate prevention discoveries into interventions that have a positive impact on such disparities is critical. Notably, no workforce reports have considered the impact of cancer prevention activities on the future burden of cancer or focused on workforce needs in cancer prevention. Cancer prevention plays a significant role in the battle against cancer. Indeed, for the first time since cancer surveillance in the United States began, both incidence and mortality rates have declined in the same year. This results in part from major advances in both treatment and prevention. However, while we must continue improving approaches to cancer treatment, we must redouble our efforts to improve and expand prevention activities and to create novel approaches in cancer prevention to reduce the burden of cancer on our society, including the anticipated impact of a workforce shortfall in medical oncology in 2020. Thus, for now and in the future, to reduce the burden of cancer on the health of the public requires a coordinated plan to ensure the continued recruitment and preparation of a strong and diverse cancer prevention workforce. Until now, because no other public effort has attempted to address workforce issues in cancer prevention, the purpose of the symposium is to stimulate organized discussion from a wide number of knowledgeable stakeholders within cancer prevention, to gather data about the cancer prevention workforce, and to form recommendations for preventing shortages and strengthening the field. The two-day symposium will take place in Houston in the heart of the Texas Medical Center at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, home to the largest center of cancer prevention research and practice in the United States. The meeting will take advantage of the 2009 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Education, also planned for Houston, to bring together experts and other stakeholders in the field of cancer prevention and cancer prevention education, training, research, clinical practice, and policy to discuss and analyze multiple aspects of the cancer prevention workforce. In 2010, a follow-up session will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of a cancer prevention organization to be named, for presenting the findings of the work developed from the 2009 symposium. The work generated will be summarized in manuscripts and published together in a supplement of the Journal of Cancer Education with recommendations for cancer prevention constituents that together can help us anticipate future problems for the cancer prevention workforce and plan strategies to avoid them. Public Health Relevance: As recent reports have shown, including the 2007 ASCO-AAMC finding that predicted a shortage of medical oncologists in 2020, a great need for action exists to ensure that the future public health workforce is sufficient in numbers and training to meet the future cancer care demands of an aging population. Efforts in cancer prevention could play a major role in reducing such an impact on our health care system, but much information is needed to make certain that the cancer prevention workforce is adequately positioned to achieve this goal. Until now, because no other public effort has attempted to address workforce issues in cancer prevention, the proposed project and symposium will assess the issues related to the recruitment and preparation of the cancer prevention workforce and propose strategies to prevent shortages in the field for the future.